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August 2, 2018 — TODAY’S PROGRAM —

Presiding: President Sharon ReedInvocation: Winn StephensSinging, Pledge & 4-Way Test: Jim RichardsonIntroduction of Guests: Mike Baker

Introduction of Speaker: Jeff ThompsonSpeaker: Mark Stoops, Head Football Coach, University of KentuckyProgram: University of Kentucky’s Wildcat Football Outlook 2018Aug. 2nd Location Change: The Grand Reserve, 903 Manchester St.

MEET OUR SPEAKER ROTARACTORS GET OFF TO A GREAT START

Knowing that obstacles are a certainty both in football and in life, Mark Stoops frequently drills his players with the mantra, “Don’t flinch.” The Kentucky head football coach certainly lived up to that creed during the 2016 season. After losing the first two games of the schedule and seeing his starting quarterback out for the season with an injury and seeing his defense struggle in the early stages, Stoops didn’t retreat. The Wildcat coach chose determination over despair and went back to work. Stoops re-tooled the offense with backup quarterback Stephen Johnson, going to a more physical, ground-based attack. With a history of success as a defensive coordinator, Stoops returned to his roots by becoming more involved with the planning and play-calling on that side of the ball.

The Lexington Rotaract Club held their first social of the year and introduced new officers for 2018-2019. Congratulations to the New Rotaract Executive Committee for 2018-2019: President - Langdon Ryan Worley Vice President - Liza van Dissel Secretary - Allison Helsinger Treasurer - Brandon Gardner Community Service Chairperson - Luke Hardy Professional Development Chairperson - Hunter Porter Membership Development/Social Media Chair - Stephanie Wurdock Lindsey If you know of any young profession-als under the age of 35 who would like to get involved with Rotaract, contact our club’s Rotaract liaison, Cam Free-man, Cameron.freeman@oldnational.com, or Peggy.

The results? The Wildcats went 7-3 in the last 10 regular-season games, topped by a win at No. 11-ranked Louisville and their inaugural appearance in the TaxSlayer Bowl. It was Kentucky’s first postseason game since 2010. UK tied for second place in the Southeastern Conference Eastern Division, the team’s highest finish since the league split into divisions in 1992. The success is the product of a rebuilding process begun by Stoops when he took over Kentucky football for the 2013 season. A native of Youngstown, Ohio, Coach Stoops played his college football at the University of Iowa. He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Iowa and also has coached at South Florida, Wyoming, Houston and Miami (Fla.), including a 12-0 national championship season with the Hurricanes, before becoming defensive coordinator at Arizona and Florida State. Stoops engineered major defensive turnarounds at Arizona and FSU, providing the springboard for his head coaching role at Kentucky. Coach Stoops is part of the acclaimed Stoops coaching family, with brothers Bob, Mike and Ron, Jr., all having coached in college football. Mark and his wife, Chantel, have two sons, Will and Zack.

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entities, individuals and tax-exempt organizations. Amy is an active member of the community as a member of the Rotaract Club of Lexington, the Lexington Forum, the Girl Scouts of Kentucky’s Wilderness Road Council Audit Committee and as a SoleMate for Girls on the Run Central Kentucky. She is also a member of the American Institute of CPAs and the Kentucky Society of CPAs. Amy graduated from Miami University with a bachelor of science in business with a concentration in accounting. Prior to joining Blue & Co., LLC, Amy worked at Deloitte Tax and MCM CPAs & Advisors.

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WELCOME, ROTARACTOR HAS YOUR INFO CHANGED? Moved? Retired? Changed your job, email address, phone number? Got a new hobby? Joined a Rotary committee? Want to update your photo? It’s that time of year when Peggy

updates our club’s roster book. The roster is a great way to keep up with our large membership. It not only provides member info, it also includes our committees, classifications, Paul Harris Fellows and other recognitions. Make sure your information is current. Stop by the table at an upcoming meeting or email Peggy, trafton@rotarylexky.org, to check/change your info. Thank you for your help in keeping our roster relevant! Please remember: THE ROSTER IS NEVER TO BE USED FOR PERSONAL SOLICITATION and is COMPILED FOR MEMBERS ONLY!

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ENDOWMENT BOARD

Susan Adams (2019)Chris Hickey (2019)

Jamie Schrader (2019) Jake Graves (2020)

Harry Richart (2020)

Debbie Tudor–Board President (2018)Bridget Collier (2018)

Amanda Huddleston (2018)Renee Jackson (2018)Kevin Weaver (2018)

Wanda Bertram (2019)Patty Breeze (2019)Dan Danford (2019)

Martha Riddell (2019)Dave Williams (2019)Wallace Barber (2020)

Amanda Ferguson (2020)Jim Martin (2020)

Gerald Marvel (2020)Barbara Tilghman (2020)

Kent Hisle–TreasurerSharon Reed, Club President

Bill Straus (2020)Chris Stevenson (2021)

Mike Baker (2021)Bill Cox (2021)

2018-2019 OFFICERSSharon Reed–President

Paul Chewning–Past PresidentGerald Marvel–President-Elect

Greg Meegan–SecretaryWallace Barber–Sergeant-at-Arms

Kent Hisle–TreasurerPeggy Trafton–Executive Director

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RIR AddendumTHE GREATEST (UNITED) EFFORT SINCE WW II!

Head south on U.S. 68 out of Lexington and you will eventually encounter twisting tree-canopied roads, cross the Brooklyn Bridge and soon find yourself transported to a place and time unlike any other: Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, known to all as Shakertown. While most are aware of Shakertown as a meticulously restored Shaker community, most have only a superficial knowledge of the Shakers. In his presentation at last week’s meeting of the Rotary Club of Lexington, Billy Rankin, Vice President of Public Programming and Organizational Strategy, brought the Shakers to life, providing insight as to who they were and how they ended up in our backyard, creating a community admired and studied across the globe. Who were the Shakers? First and foremost, they did not consider themselves “Shakers” at all but rather a religious sect known as The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearance. Part of a wave of immigrants in the late 1700s to America from the Old World in search of religious freedom, nine of their members came to America from England, where they were called Shakers as an insult. The

name came from religious rituals which often involved whirling, dancing and shaking. By 1800 there were elven Shaker villages in the northeast. In addition to “shaking” and a belief in abstinence, the Shakers were unique in many ways. Bound by a common belief that the second coming of Christ had already occurred in a female form, they also shared a desire for an obedient life, a closer relationship with their God and a strong sense of community. Equality was a fundamental tenet of their beliefs, evidenced by the purchasing of slaves’ freedom 150 years before the Civil Rights Movement. By 1820 the leader of the community was a woman, 100 years before women were given the right to vote. From their initial foothold in New England, the Shakers, like many others, began to head westward, with twenty-four settlements existing across the country at the height of the Shaker movement. In 1805 twenty-four settled in Mercer County, Kentucky. Some early converts owned farmland in the area, providing Shakertown with its initial footprint. By 1825 the settlement had grown to 491 believers; at its height, Shakertown was home to over

2,000 cohabitating much in the manner of priests and nuns, sharing housing. And they built. They built beautiful buildings that were far ahead of their time and still the subject of study and marvel today. By 1833, they had constructed their own waterworks system, before even the White House, providing residents with fresh, clean water. The second largest stone building in Kentucky was built in Shakertown, second only to the State Capitol Building. By 1910, the Shaker movement had run its course and doors were closed to new members. The last resident of Shakertown died in 1923. In the following years, the tangible evidence of the Shakers’ accomplishments was disappearing due to neglect and development. However, in a story worthy of its own chapter, in the 1980s, far-sighted and generous volunteers began the process of restoring Shakertown to its former glory. Sitting on 3,000 of the original 6,000 acres are thirty-four restored structures, the largest collection of buildings from this era. – John Wharton

Rotary in ReviewSHAKERTOWN: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF A HIDDEN GEM

Note: Given the interest in Dr. Gregory Jicha’s presentation two weeks ago, we are adding some additional information we had to omit in the original Rotary in Review due to space limitations. In his seriously sobering comparison of the problems presented to the world since the Second World War, Dr. Gregory A. Jicha, from the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging at UK, remarked that the fight against Alzheimer’s Disease will require such an effort to fend off a virtual bankruptcy of this and other countries in only a few short years. Although hundreds of clinical trials of medicines and vaccines are ongoing and we spend $270 billion per year on research, there have been NO NEW MEDICINES approved to fight Alzheimer’s since 2004! And sadly enough, we are seeing whole pharmaceutical companies drop out of the research arena because the soaring costs conflict so seriously with chances of approval of an effective treatment. Thank God, that despite this grim outlook, Academia is and will accept the challenge of finding prevention and cure. Dr. Jicha said, “Sadly enough, there are no shortages of research volunteers.” His office, for example, is overrun with them and unable to accept new patients until June 2019! He contrasted the expenditure for treatments for Alzheimer’s with those for MRSA and HIV infections — the two latter conditions having valid, effective and workable treatments while virtually none exist for the crippling and irreversible conundrum of Alzheimer’s, which receives only a fraction of the funding. Despite multiple disappointments, “every failure moves us closer,” said Dr. Jicha. Lastly and interestingly, he told our members that the rumor that aluminum was at least partially responsible was disproved by Dr. William R. Marksbury, who founded the Aging Center, when he found out that this rumor gathered steam when the researchers and pathologists were using instruments containing aluminum in their dissections of Alzheimer’s autopsies! This led investigators to begin using plastic dinnerware in their post mortem studies! And, as a final note, in answer to a question, Dr. Jicha said, “The CARDINAL PRIMARY SYMPTOM of Alzheimer’s is REPETITIVE comments and questions” by a possible patient. – Joe Bark, PDG