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Our Speaker Tuesday, May 31, 2022
DON PADGETT III
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Don Padgett III is the Executive Director of the Bridgestone SENIOR PLAYERS Championship, a major on the PGA TOUR Champions. Padgett began his PGA TOUR career at TOUR headquarters near Jacksonville, Florida in 2000. In 2007, Padgett returned to his hometown of Akron, Ohio and has led the last fifteen professional golf tournaments at Firestone Country Club.
Since Padgett took over as executive director, over $15 million has been raised for worthy charitable causes throughout Northeast Ohio from proceeds from the golf tournament. Padgett has received numerous accolades recognizing his outstanding execution of the tournament, including being named to the Crain’s Cleveland Business “Forty under Forty” list, the Greater Akron Chamber’s “Thirty for the Future” and graduating from the Leadership Akron “Class 29.” In addition, the 2014 World Golf Championships – Bridgestone Invitational was named “Tournament of the Year” for the PGA TOUR’s Championship Management Division.
Padgett is a board member for Akron/Summit County Convention and Visitors Bureau and the John S. Knight Center. Padgett has also served as an advisory board member for The First Tee chapters of Akron, Cleveland and Canton and is a past board member of Susan G. Komen of Northeast Ohio.
Don is a graduate of Indiana University, Kelley School of Business with a concentration in marketing and was also a four-year letterman on the IU golf team. He went on to earn a Masters in Business Administration from John Carroll University. Don and his wife, Kellie, live in Green, Ohio and have three children.
We are looking forward you joining us . . .so please be sure to
Taking last minute RSVPS CALL David Miller by the end of the day on Thursday, May 25th! 330-329-3225
Rotary Social
6:00 pm on Friday, May 27th at Silver Lake Country Club for our semi-annual Scotch, Bourbon and Cigar Night!
As a member of Silver Lake, I have attended this event multiple times and it is something I wanted to share with you all considering Doug Green from the Cigar Lounge is the one providing the cigars this time.
With plenty of room on the lower outdoor patio, tables will be reserved for us to enjoy each others' company along with some great whiskies and cigars!
With two options to choose from, each one includes a limited buffet of heavy appetizers and (3) drink tickets. The only difference would ne if you want cigars.
Option 1 (Food and Drink Tickets Only): $32.00 per person
Option 2 (Food, Drink Tickets, 4 Cigars): $83.00 per person
Payment will be due at the event via cash or credit card and any no shows will be billed.
Summer is here and what better way to celebrate than a first summer camp cookout at Rotary Camp with our campers and staff! We are looking for volunteers to help serve dinner on Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 5:30pm – 7:30pm.
We will eat in the Pavilion, (weather permitting), and volunteers are responsible for setting up the buffet line, serving dinner and clean-up afterwards. Come with friends and family and enjoy the evening with us!
Please sign up below and reach out to Amanda Warner, amandaw@akronymca.org if you have any questions.
Event:
Rotary Camp Cookout
Date:
Thursday, June 9th, 2022 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Location:
Akron Rotary Camp 4460 Rex Lake Drive Akron, OH 44319
You can sign up directly on the Rotary Club of Akron website by clicking here.
We appreciate your participation and look forward to making this a great event together and to see you at Rotary Camp this summer!
We are looking for volunteers for the Akron Canton Food Bank service project. The Date is Wednesday, June 15 from 4:30pm to 6:30pm at the Akron location which is located at 350 Opportunity Parkway, Akron, OH 44307.
ALL volunteers need to apply/register in order to volunteer. I am the volunteer coordinator for the Akron Rotary Club and you will need the Akron Rotary Club’s address for signing up.
Akron Rotary Club
4460 Rex Lake Drive
Akron, OH 44319
If you have any questions please call or text me at 330-714-1044.
I need a head count by June 8th, so please let me know if you plan on attending by sending me an email or text: dhall@preferredlegacy.com or 330-714-1044 Thank you!
As a side note I plan on going out to dinner after our volunteer time is done, somewhere downtown as there are a lot of great choices. Anyone is welcome to join me, Rotarian or not. If we have a large group I will make arrangements for somewhere before hand.
The Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank’s Main Campus is located at 350 Opportunity Parkway, Akron, OH 44307, at the corner of Dart Avenue and Opportunity Parkway off of OH-59 near Downtown Akron. Get Directions.
When you arrive, please park in the front of the building or in the Dart Avenue parking lot. Use the front glass doors to enter the building.
If the parking lot is full, please park in the grass lot or proceed to the Shipping and Receiving parking lot on the other side of the building.
If entering through Shipping and Receiving, enter through the RED visitor door and proceed to the front desk.
We also recommend carpooling when possible.
What to wear:
Face Masks are optional.
Safety is our priority! Please note that open-toed shoes are not permitted in the warehouse.Jewelry is not permitted in the clean- room and we recommend wearing limited jewelry when volunteering.
Comfortable shoes are recommended as you may be on your feet the entire time.
It is best to dress in layers. The weather outside may affect the temperature inside the warehouse.
Thank you for volunteering at your Foodbank! We look forward to welcoming you.
Tasha R. Ledrich // Volunteer & Guest Experience Supervisor
AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK Main 330.535.6900 // Direct 330.777.1065 Main Campus 350 Opportunity Pkwy, Akron, OH 44307 Stark County Campus 1365 Cherry Ave NE, Canton, OH 44714
The Rotary Club of Akron had the pleasure of listening to Jon Fiume, Director and CEO of the Akron Art Museum at our Tuesday, May 24, 2022, Club meeting. Jon has been serving Akron’s arts and culture scene for over 20 years. His past contributions have included serving on the boards of the Akron Art Museum, Weathervane Playhouse, ArtsNow, and Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens. He is currently a Public Arts Commissioner for the City of Akron, board member Leadership Akron, member of the Diversity and Inclusion committee for ArtsNow, and a member of the Arts Advancement Council for the University of Akron. As of February 2022, Jon is serving as the John S. Knight Director & CEO of the Akron Art Museum.
Jon began his presentation giving a little history of the museum. Volunteers were the sole staff until 1924, when city support made it possible to hire a professional director. The Great Depression tightened finances and ended City funding, forcing the Institute to again rely entirely on volunteers from 1931 to 1945. It functioned — much of that time in borrowed spaces — as an art center, offering classes and exhibiting mostly local artists. The collection was small, eclectic — containing archeological artifacts and decorative as well as fine art — and composed entirely of gifts. In 1937 the Institute moved into its first permanent home. Moving forward, for the past twenty-five years the Museum has continued to enrich the lives of those in Northeast Ohio and beyond through modern and contemporary art.
During 2020, the Akron Art Museum went through some challenging times. The result was the development of a Transformation Plan. The plan has the goal of the Museum becoming a stronger, healthier institution, absent of biases. Plan components consist of the following:
Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion (DEAI) Training to increase the staff and board’s knowledge of implicit bias and to increase awareness in the areas of DEAI.
Board Transformation Task Force to assess and determine opportunities to be a more highly effective board with consideration to the areas of board make-up, structure, board member orientation, committee structure, and others to be determined as needed/identified.
Internal DEAI Working Group to identify and address DEAI opportunities within the organization, establish a DEAI statement, and improve the overall culture. This internal council is employee-led and does not contain members from the board or executive leadership.
Community Advisory Board to increase communication and improve the overall relationship with all sectors of the community including other community leaders, members of the museum, and residents. Information was shared in the areas of DEAI, current events, and or challenges that all are facing.
Mission, Vision, Values Work Group to ensure alignment with the newly established practices coming from the workaround DEAI. Members will include the board and staff with the work began in early 2021.
Marketing and Communications Task Force to rebuild the community’s confidence in the Museum. Progress updates regarding the plan will be provided. Members will be made up of marketing and communications staff, advancement staff, board members, and an external communications firm representative.
Development of a 12–24-month Institutional Plan defining the objectives of the Museum for fiscal year 2022.
What is happening at the Akron Art Museum now?
Current Exhibitions:
Reflections on Perception: April 9th – September 11, 2022
Reflections on Perception explores how artists working in realism employ such surfaces to create engaging compositions. Explore how artists use this compositional device to impact how and what the viewer perceives.
Responsibility to Reveal: 30 Years of the Knight Purchase Award for Photographic Media: ends June 5, 2022.
Celebrate the Akron Art Museum’s steadfast commitment to art photography through this exhibition surveying the history of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Purchase Award for Photographic Media.
Upcoming Exhibitions:
Good Hope: June 1, 2022 – May 14, 2023
The Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation Gallery, and Rory and Dedee O’Neil Lobby:
Be inspired by the illustrations of this South African illustration studio. Good Hope transports visitors into the environs around the illustrators’ hometown, exploring the flora, fauna, and folklore. Exploration and humor are at the center of these wall-sized illustrations. Come get lost in whimsical, wondrous compositions.
FRONT International 2022 Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows: July 16 – Oct 2, 2022
Taking its title from a 1957 poem by author Langston Hughes, Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows aims to promote contemporary art as an agent of transformation, a mode of healing, and a therapeutic process. The Akron Art Museum’s presentation will focus on artists who employ materials to create craft-based artwork to cope and explore relationships between objects and lived experience.
Other Programs:
The Akron Art Museum offers a variety of other programs. They include the Family Program, Teachers and Schools, and AAM At Home to name just a few. To learn more about these programs and other activities offered by the Art Museum, check out their website at https://akronartmuseum.org.
Yours in Rotary Service
Terry Dalton
Akron Rotary Club Secretary and Scholarship Chair
Please check your email for your 2022-2023 Rotary Club of Akron annual dues invoice/statement.
Invoices were emailed electronically April 15th and follow-up statements have been sent out as well.
If you do not have it please reach out to Cheryl Warren at 330-495-9814 and she will resend it to you or help you process your online payment.
We sincerely appreciate your help to ensure your dues are paid before June!
