Making a difference in the community. Making a difference in the world.

the ROTAGRAMS The mission of the Rotary Club of Dallas is to provide service to others, to identify and support humanitarian projects, to promote high ethical standards, and to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.

May 13, 2015

Volume 104 | Issue 41

1st in Texas | 39th Internationally Serving Since 1911

The place to be on WEDNESDAY

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Dallas Farmers Market

Fresh Start for Downtown

Join us as Brian Bergersen shares his leadership over the redevelopment of the Dallas Farmers Market. We will learn about the challenges and triumphs this real estate guru went through and the future of the neighborhood.

LOCATION INFORMATION

Hyatt Regency at Reunion Tower Reunion AB Ballroom

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FEATURED PROGRAM

“What you think you become. What you feel you attract. What you imagine you create.” [Buddha]

On April 8th, one of our very own members Dr. Ted Fields talked with us about today's state-of-the-art practices in oral and maxillofacial surgery, specifically dental implants. Dr. Fields received a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and continued his studies at Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas, TX, earning a Doctorate in Dental Surgery, and later earned a certificate in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and a second Doctorate degree, a Ph.D. in Craniofacial Biology, through Texas A & M Health Science Center. Dr. Fields regularly teaches seminars for other surgical specialists and dentists, primarily focusing on advances in dental implant care for tooth replacement. For the last 8 years, he has worked closely with a Swiss company to help design and test a new ceramic dental implant system and bone-welding technique that radically changes how missing teeth are replaced. While he spends most of his work-week performing the clinical practice of oral surgery, he also collaborates with fellow scientists pursuing NIH research towards improved bone regeneration and novel tooth

Meeting REVIEW By: Dana DeVance By: Dana DeVance Rotagrams Reporter

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Dallas Rotary Club Foundation

61 years of service

Join us as we hold our annual foundation awards luncheon. We will celebrate generous donors and we will also give campaign and financial updates. You will receive an overview of the Foundation, goals and future. Please join us.

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Dreams for Scholars Awards

Luncheon

Join us as we award scholarships to six deserving students valued up to $192,000. These students will attend college and some are first generation college students. Let’s build a strong, sustainable future together!

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Steve Cotton was raised and educated in Dallas, and has had a rich and multifaceted career in investments, business, government, public affairs, media relations and marketing for more than 37 years. His professional experience has included wealth management for private clients and churches, business planning and marketing, high-level government relations, and program development responsibilities. He is currently an independent Financial Advisor registered with LPL Financial and Independent Financial Partners (IFP), and is President of CottonWealth Management Associates, a financial planning and wealth management firm. Prior to starting his new company in 2014, he was one of two founding Managing

Inside the Oval Office

Partners of the Cotton-Adams Financial Group, LLC from 2006-2014. Prior to starting the joint venture at Cotton-Adams, Steve was a successful financial consultant at A.G. Edwards and Morgan Stanley. He has also held senior management positions in the largest division of a high technology, Fortune 100 defense corporation, helped develop public policy in the U.S. Congress and Texas Legislature, directed media relations, public affairs, and political campaign work, served a major Texas university, and served private clients as a corporate business consultant.

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Baylor Scott & White Health

Join us as President and CEO Joel Allison speaks to us about Baylor Scott & White Health, which is the largest not-for-profit healthcare system in Texas & one of the largest in the United States.

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replacement techniques replacing tissues lost due to trauma, destructive disease, or congenital birth defects. His research and clinical work has appeared in more than 50 peer-reviewed papers and original scientific presentations. Dental implants were historically constructed of titanium, but the implants of today are constructed of zirconium dioxide ceramic, which is stronger than titanium, resistant to high heat, and tolerated by the body systems to allow the bone to grow easily around it. This advanced material is also naturally disease resistant because bacteria cannot stick to its surface, therefore this is the perfect material for dental implants. It typically takes three months for the bone to heal and regenerate around the post, and since Dr. Fields was one of the first people in the world to use these implants, he now trains other oral surgeons to use them and perform the surgeries as well. In theory, these new teeth will last forever!

MEMBERSHIP ROUNDUP Receive $100 bounty on your dues for each

new member you bring into the Club!

SEEK THE TRUTH

It’s our brightest beacon. It lights a clear path. It illuminates the goal. It exposes the obstacles and deceptions. It simplifies life. “Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)

Happy Birthday

For the week of May 10th - 16th

From left: Andrew Ford, Anthony Interrante, Katrina Champeny, Peter Fitzwilliams, Michael Arsov and Victor Hancock

dallasrotary.org/match

The Board of Directors has approved a matching grant for donations to the Rotary International Foundation up to an aggregate amount of $15,000. Between now and June 15th every donation to the Rotary Foundation

between $50.00 and $500.00 will be matched dollar for dollar by your club. So your $100 donation turns into $200 - making your impact larger! When you donate to Rotary International, this donation can come back to our District and to our Club in the form of matching grants for our projects that qualify. In order to qualify for a matching grant, all donations must be made at dallasrotary.org/match. On the website you can learn more and donate. You can also mail a check, or call the Office to make your donation. In addition to the Club matching your donation, Bill Slicker has stepped forward and offered to match for each member that donates. That means that your donation of $100, is matched by us and matched by Bill Slicker, making your $100 = $300! This is an amazing opportunity! This will be reflected in your Rotary International membership giving account.

Speaker Biography Continued… Steve is an active member of the Dallas-Fort Worth Council on World Affairs and the Rotary Club of Dallas. He served on the Rotary Board of Directors 2010-2013, serving as Chairman of the club’s Outstanding Teacher Awards program. In 2006, he was selected to be the first President of the new Dallas Association of Southwestern University Alumni. In November, 2013, Steve was honored as an “Outstanding Professional Alumnus” by Southwestern University at the annual Homecoming Celebration, one of only three alumni chosen nationwide that year. Mr. Cotton earned a B.A. in Political Science from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas in 1977 and received his M.A. in Government with Certification in National Security Studies from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in 1986. During his public policy career, he served in the Texas Legislature as Administrative Assistant to a Texas State Senator, Administrative Assistant to a Texas State Representative, worked for a Texas Supreme Court Justice, and served with three Members of Congress in Washington, D.C. as a senior Legislative Assistant, Special Assistant, and Press Secretary/Communications Director. He is a graduate of the Congressional Research Service’s Institute for Legislative Staff. Mr. Cotton’s background in the private sector includes service in the aerospace technology industry. As a senior manager in the marketing and program development department of General Dynamics’ Fort Worth Division from 1986 to 1991, Mr. Cotton helped direct the marketing and government affairs activities at the company’s largest business unit ($1.5B in annual sales), and served as administrator of the Division’s Political Action Committee. In 1987, he was honored with the company’s Extraordinary Achievement Award. Mr. Cotton has a passion for teaching and has served as a Special Guest Instructor at four major Texas colleges-- Trinity University, Southwestern University, Texas Christian University and Texas Tech University. His topics have ranged from financial planning and investments, to economics and market issues, to U.S. arms control and foreign policy issues, to the congressional budget and governmental process, to national security issues, to technology, health care and telemedicine issues, to congressional and presidential politics, and elections. Reflecting his long-time interest in American presidential history, Steve was selected in 2013 to be a Volunteer Education Docent at the new President George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum prior to its formal opening in Dallas in May of that year. He now serves as a Lead Trainer for new volunteer docents from the community. He provides oral interpretive histories in the Museum’s Oval Office exhibit and other key areas of the Bush Center, serves on the Bush Library and Museum Education Committee, and has helped develop the training curriculum for both new and experienced docents.

OFFICERS

Charles M. Mohrle, President

Jeffrey M. Bosque, President Elect

Robert H. Dilworth, Past President

Wm. Dennis Connally, Treasurer &

Past President 5yr Advisor

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DIRECTORS

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Heather Stevens

ROTAGRAMS REPORTERS

Dana DeVance, Ted Fields & Don Read

ROTAGRAMS EDITORS

Dennis Connally, Ben Langlotz,

Charlie Mohrle& Bill Schilling

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STOP HUNGER NOW

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Volunteer and help us package over 30,000 meals to feed needy people in our own local

and global communities.

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From left to right: President Charlie Mohrle welcomes Dennis Allen and Spencer Knapp as new members to the Club. Second photograph shows our 2015 Corporate Citizen of the Year Awards. Pictured from left Matthew Swerdlow, Charlie Mohrle, Jeff Dahl, Emily Parker, Rhett Taylor, Steve Holmes and Howard Templin.

Nomination Deadline: May 20, 2015 Awardees Informed: May 29, 2015 Awards Presented: June 24, 2015

The Club recognizes outstanding members each year with Club Awards. Members can be nominated for these awards by submitting a nomination form through the Club website. All awards are presented at the last meeting of the Rotary Year at the "Changing of the Guard". Submit dallasrotary.org/awards

Gregory L. Miller

Rachael Jones

George H. Tarpley

Howard L. Templin

Greg Wood

Elizabeth Kwarteng

Dana DeVance

Rocky Dhir

Thomas Franklin

John H. Forest

Cyndi Janssen

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