Category: Past Speakers

Lt Col Dave Glassman, USMC (Ret.), is a graduate of the State University of New York and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in 1988. He served in a variety assignments as a Naval Aviator, to include unit deployments to Okinawa, Japan; the Mediterranean Sea, and combat support operations in the Kosovo Area of Operations. He retired for Active Duty in February, 2010, and served as Director of Operations for the Center for Strategic Military Excellence (Pensacola, FL) to provide leadership and programmatic development designed to address gaps in veteran services provided by the Veterans Administration. In 2013 he Co-Founded DigiPro Media, LLC and he continues to serve the community by developing digital networks that serve small business and non-profit organizations.
Since 2009 he has served as Vice President for America’s Heroes Enjoying Recreation Outdoors (AHERO: AHEROusa.org), a non-profit organization that strives to reduce military and veteran suicide. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Veterans Memorial Park Foundation of Pensacola, a non-profit organization that is charged with the custodial care of the Park and its memorials to the men and women who have sacrificed their lives in the defense of this great nation.

“Establishing a New Catholic High School in Baldwin County.”
St. Michael Catholic High School opened in 2016 with 99 freshman and sophomores, and has added a class each year. Now a 9-12 school with 323 students, it offers students classes at the “Collegiate Studies” and “Honors/A.P.” level. Students earn 32 credits for graduation, with four years of History, Theology, Science, Math and English and a minimum of 2 years of foreign language and the Arts. The school hosts 11 varsity athletic programs competing at the 3A level, a 70-member Band program, a 150-member choral program, a Scholar’s Bowl team, a Model U.N. team, and a foreign language program that earned 56 medals on national language exams in 2019.
This is the story of St. Michael’s origins and its future plans, as told by its founding principal, Faustin Weber.
31 years as Principal, President or Headmaster of three Catholic high schools, married to Diane Weber for 33 years, with four kids and five grandchildren. Undergrad and graduate degrees from University of Notre Dame, worships at Christ the King in Daphne.

As President and lead consultant at The Net Effect, Glenda R. Snodgrass is primarily engaged in cyber security training, threat analysis and mitigation for commercial, non­profit and governmental organizations. A frequent contributor to multiple online publications, she also provides expert witness testimony in technology ­related court cases.
Currently President of Gulf Coast Industrial Security Awareness Council, Vice Chair of Mobile Chapter 117 of the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS International), member of the steering committee for Gulf Coast Technology Council, and serving on the Board of Directors of the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce, Ms.
Snodgrass is also an active member of InfraGard and recently graduated from the FBI Citizens’ Academy. She holds a B.A. from the University of South Alabama (1986) and a maîtrise from Université de Paris I ­ Panthéon­Sorbonne in Paris, France (1989).

Scott Speck joined the Mobile Symphony in 2000 as its first full-time music director and is now in his 19th season. Under his leadership, the orchestra has grown to become one of the central Gulf Coast’s most outstanding performing arts organizations.
A masterful conductor with a wide-ranging knowledge of repertoire, deep experience in programming, and a terrific sense of what will engage audiences – old and new. His gala performances with Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell and most recently with Renee Fleming are highlights of his years as music director of the MSO. This season’s exciting lineup of concerts further illustrates the depth and breadth of his knowledge and experience.
Speck also holds positions as Music Director of the Joffrey Ballet, Chicago Philharmonic and West Michigan Symphony. He is co-author of the world’s best-selling books on classical music for a popular audience: Classical Music for Dummies, Opera for Dummies and Ballet for Dummies. He has been a regular commentator on National Public Radio, the BBC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Voice of Russia, broadcast throughout the world.
Born in Boston, Scott Speck graduated summa cum laude from Yale University. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Berlin, where he founded Concerto Grosso Berlin, an orchestra dedicated to the performances of Baroque and Classical music in a historically informed style. He received his Master’s Degree with highest honors from the University of Southern California, served as a Conducting Fellow at the Aspen School of Music, and studied at the Tanglewood Music Center. He is fluent in English, German and French, has a diploma in Italian, speaks Spanish and has a reading knowledge of Russian.

Michael C. Rogers, Jr.
President
Rogers & Willard, Inc.
Mike has lived most of his life in Mobile. He attended McGill-Toolen High School and received a degree in Building Science from Auburn University in 1987. In 1989, after starting his career in construction in Nashville, he returned to Mobile and co-founded Rogers & Willard, Inc… Since beginning his career, Mike has been involved with many non-profits. He is past chair of Centre for the Living Arts (CLA) where he oversaw the restoration of the historic Saenger Theatre and the conversion of the Mobile Press Register into Alabama Contemporary Art Center (ACAC). He is a graduate of Leadership Alabama and has served on many non-profit boards including Alabama Coastal Foundation, The Nature Conservancy of Alabama and the Alabama Architectural Foundation. He presently serves on the boards of Auburn University College of Architecture, Design and Construction, Mobile Chamber of Commerce. Auburn University Alumni Association and UMS-Wright Preparatory School. He is passionate about; arts and culture, affordable housing, the environment and attracting young professionals to Mobile. Mike is married to Cay MacClary and has three daughters; Catie (27), Jackie (25) and Leigh (12). He is an amateur photographer and avid outdoorsman. He particularly enjoys fishing, birding, photography and travel.