PRESENTATION TITLE: Rotary’s Relevance from Age 21 to 41
After graduating from Citronelle High School in 1992, Will Edmonds attended the University of Mobile, and graduated in 1997 with majors in International Business and French. Early in college, Will studied in Tours, France at the Institut de Touraine through the University of Alabama’s Capstone College International. Eager to study abroad again, in 1995 Will applied for and received a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to study in Brussels, Belgium where he lived with a French-speaking family and attended classes at the Centre de Langues à Louvain La Neuve.
In 2007, Will completed a Master of Education with a concentration in French at the University of South Alabama. In 2009 he achieved National Board Certification for Teachers (NBCT) in the area of World Languages. Will was awarded a STAR research scholarship in 2010 through the University of Alabama at Huntsville to travel to Nova Scotia, Canada and St. Martinville, Louisiana to research the 1755 deportation of the Acadians to Louisiana. From 2005-2012, he served as president of the Mobile Chapter of the Alliance Française.
Will began teaching French at Burns Middle School in 1998 and joined the faculty at Davidson High School in 2001 where he currently teaches French 1-5, as well as AP and IB French. He currently sponsors the Davidson High School French National Honor Society and leads student trips to France every other year. Will is married to Lydia Greene Edmonds, and they have two very active little boys, William (5) and John Rault (2).
Aug. 20, 2015–Phil Savage Executive Director, Senior Bowl
PHIL SAVAGE, JR.
Executive Director, Senior Bowl
Named Executive Director of the Reese’s Senior Bowl in June of 2012, Phil is a native Mobilian and returned to the Port City after spending 20 years in the National Football League as a coach, scout, personnel director and general manager.
Phil’s “football life” began as a 6-year old quarterback for the Mims Park Redskins, continued at Murphy High School and progressed to the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, where he played football and baseball. Following his graduation in 1987 with a degree in English, his career has included jobs in virtually every aspect of the game. From coaching offense and defense to scouting over 6,000 potential NFL draft picks and now to his latest ventures in the media, he has an all-encompassing perspective of both college and professional football.
Football Timeline:
• 1987-89 University of Alabama, Graduate Assistant/Tight Ends Coach
• 1990 UCLA, Graduate Assistant/Tight Ends Coach
• 1991-93 Cleveland Browns, Defensive Assistant/Defensive Backs
• 1994-95 Cleveland Browns, Area and National Scout
• 1996-02 Baltimore Ravens, Director of College Scouting
• 2003-04 Baltimore Ravens, Director of Player Personnel
• 2005-08 Cleveland Browns, Senior VP and General Manager
• 2010-12 Philadelphia Eagles, Player Personnel Executive
• 2013-present Reese’s Senior Bowl, Executive Director
Media Opportunities:
• 2009-present Crimson Tide Sports Network, Radio Color Analyst
• 2013-present ESPN, “The NFL Insiders”, Contributor and On-Air Talent
• 2013-present SiriusXM Radio, College Sports Nation and NFL Analyst
“I have been fortunate to have worked with some of the best and brightest people in football. To have been exposed to coach Homer Smith for offense, Bill Belichick and Nick Saban for defense, Ozzie Newsome for player personnel and Eli Gold for broadcasting, I have been influenced by people at the very top of the sport. And tonight, with that knowledge as a backdrop, I’m looking forward to giving the kind of insight that will help you enjoy football even more. Thanks for being here.” –
Website: www.seniorbowl.com
Twitter: @SeniorBowlPhil
X’s and O’s
During this “quarter”, Phil is going to cover essential football terminology, explain offensive and defensive strategies and, through the use of videotape, give an overall tutorial on how to watch the game.
I. Basic Concepts of Football
A. Offensive Personnel Groupings and Formations
1. Regular = “21” 2RB/1TE/3WR (1st and 2nd Downs)
2. Silver = “12” 1RB/2TE/2WR (1st and 2nd Downs)
3. Blue = “11” 1RB/1TE/3WR (3rd Downs/Sub)
4. Red = “10” 1RB/0TE/4WR (3rd Downs/Sub)
5. Black = “23” 2RB/3TE (Short Yardage/GL)
B. Defensive Structures and Alignments
1. Base Even = “4-3” 4DL/3LB/4DB (1st and 2nd Downs)
2. Base Odd = “3-4” 3DL/4LB/4DB (1st and 2nd Downs)
3. Nickel = “4-2” 4DL/2LB/5DB (3rd Downs/Sub)
4. Dime = “4-1” 4DL/1LB/6DB (3rd Downs/Sub)
5. Hippo = “5-3” 5DL/3LB/3DB (Short Yardage/GL)
II. Videotape Review
A. Position Breakdown
B. Down/Distance
C. Personnel and Formations vs. Structures and Alignments
D. Run Plays
E. Pass Plays
F. Coverages
G. Pressures/Blitzes
III. Q&A
Introduction (6:15)
1. Welcome to the 1st Annual Girls of Fall/so pleased
-history/idea/added features/name/future
2. Poll: college/NFL fans, husband/boyfriend are fans,
son/husband/nephew playing football
3. Quick overview of Quarters (X’s and O’s, Officiating, Tailgating/Food Ideas, Fashion)
-David Smith, Panini Pete Blohme and PS
-air horn signals 2-minute warning and end of QTR
-10-minute break between QTR’s (rotate 3x/4th Fashion)
-Girls of Fall t-shirts available for $15
4. Cannot start game without National anthem (Dorothy Savage)
5. Thanks to AL.com and Press-Register for co-sponsoring this event
6. Get you ready with Snap Count drill
Pre-Fashion Show (8:00pm)
1. Covered classroom and the kitchen, now your closet!
2. Before we turn the program over to Lenise Ligon/Fox10 and begin the Fashion Show
3. Few comments about your role as a woman re: football
-not an easy game: PT, inj, losses, dedication of time/energy
-although you may never throw a pass or make a tackle, a very important role to play…BE THERE!
-CS: practices/Elvis, injuries/HS and college, crushing moments to SB35 win…always there!
-HS: Bible verse when needed most/Rom 8:28…was there!
-DTS: being hired as a GM at 39 and fired 4 years later, the emotional ups and downs of winning/losing in the NFL, getting the ‘Bama radio job and celebrating as much or more than the subsequent 3 BCS titles
-my point is that whether it’s your own husband, son, grandson, nephew or neighborhood kid, you might be the only encourager he is ever going to get
-DEPENDABILITY and RELIABILITY mean much more than pure ABILITY alone…will YOU be there?
4. “Boys of Fall”, here to sing our own rendition and dedicated to you, the “Girls of Fall”, Mr. Brad Hill
Post-Fashion Show (for LL)
1. Thank you so much for being here, see you in 2014!
2. Vendor booths will remain open
3. Overtime Q&A in segment rooms
Post-Mortem
-30-minute window for pre-game time
-signs for kickoff/start
-colored signs will move to rooms
-4 groups/rotate through 3 rooms and vendors
-move kickoff/fashion show to main ballroom (or extend room)
-earlier date?
-T-shirts: pink/black (order earlier)
-fashion show: more football-oriented and shorter
-another venue: AL.com (Birmingham)
-sponsors: Regions Bank, Red Diamond, Blue Rents
-other ideas: Sarah Thomas, equipment/apparel, walk-thru,
more interactive, etc
Aug. 13, 2015–Jerry Carl District 3 Mobile County Commissioner
Jerry Carl is new to the business of political service, but an old hand at the business of making successful businesses.
A native of Mobile, the District 3 Mobile County Commissioner has started, built and sold numerous businesses. His professional experience, along with an abiding interest in the welfare of his community, brought him into the realm of public service.
He and a contingent of supporters in District 3 campaigned in the November 2012 election cycle to seat Mr. Carl as representative of the vast southern district of Mobile County, stretching from Mobile Bay to downtown Mobile and west Grand Bay.
The commissioner continues to manage his businesses. A sampling of his entrepreneurial efforts during his 30-year career includes:
• Manufacturing / Church furniture.
• Wholesale Sales / Independent Sales Rep group of Home Medical Equipment and Funeral Home supplies.
• Retail Sales / Open 20 plus retail locations supplying Home Medical Equipment and Supplies across multiple states / Pharmacy’s specializing in Inhalation Solutions and bleeding disorders.
• Timber sales & management / Cricket & Butterfly, LLC
• Developer / Developed River Oaks subdivision in Orrville, AL, as well as West Side Park a commercial office development on Schillinger Road.
But his proudest accomplishment is being married to his wife, Tina, for more than 30 years, raising his three kids, focusing on his four grandchildren and service as a deacon at his Luke 4:18 Church.
Other service work includes church missions as far away as Africa.
For leisure, Mr. Carl enjoys the outdoors with a dose of adventure. He is an avid hunter, fisherman, skydiver, scuba diver, and an airplane pilot.
Aug. 6, 2015–Sy Lichtenfeld An American POW in WWII
BIO OF SY LICHTENFELD
Sy Lichtenfeld served almost three years in the U.S.Army during World War II in airborne and combat infantry units as a rifleman. He was captured during the Battle of the Bulge after his unit was surrounded for three days and had run out of food and ammunition. He was taken prisoner at the point of a bayonet and spent over five months as a Prisoner of War in Germany.
The war Department has awarded him the Combat Infantryman’s Badge, The Purple Heart, The Bronze Star, the Prisoner of War Medal, World War II Battle of the Bulge Medal, The European Theatre of Operations Medal with three battle clusters, as well as many others for his years of service.
After the war, he attended Purdue University and obtained a degree in engineering and operated successful businesses in Chicago and Miami. He resided in Miami for 47 years with his wife, Natalie and their three children. In February 2011, Sy & Natalie relocated to Mobile to be near family.
He has been very active in the American EX-Prisoners of War Organization having served as a Commander of three EX-POW Chapters and on the Board of Directors of the Florida Dept of Ex-POWs. He was a Veterans Service Officer for many years helping other Vets in obtaining their benefits.
He is presently active in the South Alabama Veterans Council, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Alabama Chapter No.1 of the Rolling Thunder and various Veteran Service Organizations. In addition, he travels throughout Mobile and Baldwin counties educating school children and others about World War II.
In April 2014, he was appointed by the Governor of the State of Alabama to serve as a member of the Alabama State Board of Veterans Affairs.
The Library of Congress has accepted his book which he has written about his experiences in the Army as a Prisoner of War.
July 16, 2015
Minutes – July 16 2015
President Robby called the meeting to order and John Smith led the invocation. Gordon Korb led the singing accompanied by Les Greer. President Robby noted that six new members joined last week, a record for this club.
Les Greer introduced David Richey as our newest member.
We were encouraged to bring children’s books to our meeting to be used in our lending libraries now being set in several new schools.
John Dukes then introduced Dr. Joe Savage, Exec. Dean at the University of Mobile who spoke about “Millennials and Human Trafficking”.
Dr. Savage advised millennials can be best worked with by being direct in communicating with them, i.e. not coddling, building a caring relationship and by putting a challenge to them. These three factors are key to successful business and working relationships.
He then spoke about the student ministries at the University of Mobile, including volunteers working in the area of human trafficking. He noted thirty million people today are trafficked largely in sex trafficking and labor exploitation.
In the course of volunteering in the Ukraine, Dr. Savage learned of the problem of young girls at 16 years of age, being released from orphanages who were unprepared to live independently who then became victims of sex trafficking. Dr. Savage and the University of Mobile worked with a couple who had opened their home to three girls in what is now called “Emmanuel House”. The couple care for these young women as their own with no governmental support. Dr. Savage has worked to raise funds to upgrade this home to be more suitable for this purpose and they now have eight girls in residence at this transitional home.
He went on to described selected girls’ circumstances and their success at Emmanuel House and then surprised the club by asking a back table of young women to stand and come forward. We then met the girls he had recently been describing and heard from their house mother of her gratitude for all that had been done for them.
Respectfully submitted,
Rose M Johnson
7.18.15
July 9, 2015
Minutes of the July 9, 2015 Meeting
Rotary Club of Mobile
Passing the Gavel Ceremony
Call to Order: Ken Robinson called the meeting to order at 12:15 and asked those present to stand and observe a moment of silence in remembrance of past president Bill Goodloe who died earlier this week. Bill Kinnaird then came forward to offer an invocation and afterwards Gordon Korb led the group in the song and pledge, accompanied by Les Greer on the piano. Tom Martenstein welcomed members’ guests and visiting Rotarians.
Special Announcement: Ken Robinson announced that our former president, John Rogers, is headed home from M.D. Anderson and offered a special prayer for him and his family as well as any of our members who may be ill.
New Members: Possibly a record number of new members joined the club at one time today. John Pisarkiewicz was introduced by Earl Jackson. Melanie Susman and David Walker were introduced by Les Greer. Finally, Michael Chambers presented Julee Waldrop, Ph.D. and her husband, Tony Waldrop, Ph.D. as our club’s newest members.
Paul Harris Fellows: Gordon Korb and Tom Van Antwerp were recognized as new Paul Harris Fellows with Edward Ladd inducted as a Paul Harris Fellow +2 and Steve Dill a Paul Harris Fellow +4.
Ken Robinson: A year in Review
Outgoing president Ken Robinson reminisced on his year as club president which included the wonderful events surrounding the centennial with its gala and charitable gifts allowing a new playground at Augusta Evans, a display at the new Gulfquest and a planned Rotary labyrinth at the Mobile Infirmary. He spoke of the 100 gifts to 100 Charities which gave $100 donations to charitable entities in our area as well as our club’s spearheading the new literacy project with nine small lending libraries now in place in area schools.
Behind the scenes a new website is in place and an upgraded accounting system was installed. As of June 1 a Touchpoints program was inaugurated with the hope it will allow newer members to become more involved with the club and its projects. The CART project with donations collected to help in Alzheimer’s research has now become a monthly event and over $28,000 was given by our members to the Rotary Foundation – or over $100 per member.
Ken noted that the club is in good financial health and concluded by thanking club members for a successful year. Ken received a standing ovation from the members.
Passing of the Gavel: The gavel was passed from the earliest past president (Russell Ladd – 1970-71) to Ken Robinson who passed it to incoming president, Robison C. McClure, Jr who stressed the need for new members and made the following announcements:
- A party honoring incoming District Governor Michael Chambers will take place next week at the Athelstan Club. Invitations have been emailed and it is mandatory that those wishing to attend respond no later than Friday, July 10.
- A board meeting will be held following the meeting next week on July 16.
- Introduced Frank Harkins who announced that July 28 will be Rotary Appreciation Day at Camp ASCCA. He encouraged participation by members and asked that he be called for directions and possible transportation to the event. He reminded members that our club covers the cost of 100 participating campers annually.
- Rob Hackbarth then reminded the members that this is the week we take up CART contributions to assist in the research of Alzheimer’s.
Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 12:55 P.M. by president McClure.
Tom McGehee
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July 16, 2015–Joe Savage
Joe Savage Bio
Dr. Joe Savage is an author and speaker who also serves at the University of Mobile as the executive dean of the School of Christian Ministries and the director of the Center for Leadership. He also recently created a new non-profit organization called Projects That Matter which is helping girls overseas from becoming victims of human trafficking.
Prior to coming to the University of Mobile, Joe was a forerunner in training and inspiring more than 200 coaches and executives in the National Football League (NFL) to maximize their influence. For several years, he wrote a weekly motivational email which became the most requested Christian devotion in all professional sports.
He has personally spoken to more than 2,000 audiences in fifteen nations. His audiences have ranged from inner-city youth in America’s largest cities to corporate and team events for Aflac, NASA, Coca Cola, Olympic athletes, NFL coaches and executives, and others.
Joe has led numerous large-scale outreach events, meeting the physical and spiritual needs of tens of thousands of impoverished people around the world through the provision of medicine, clothing, food, toys, and spiritual counsel. In total, Joe’s projects and works have provided well over $1,000,000 in humanitarian aid and assistance to orphans, children, and the poor in America and around the world.
Joe is the author of two books. He is a graduate of UMS Preparatory School. He and his wife Pamela reside in Fairhope. And as a side note, he is the brother of Senior Bowl director and long-term NFL executive Phil Savage.