Jan 30 – Catherine Fieseler, M.D. — Sports Medicine

Catherine Fieseler, M.D. — Sports medicine specialist.

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION
• Team Physician: University of Texas at Tyler
• Writer: Running Times magazine and website
• Instructor: Team in Training national coaches
• TMF Sports Medicine Fellowship Program:
Co-Director Primary Care
• Sports Medicine Fellowship: Cleveland Clinic
Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
• Family Practice Residency: Womack Army Hospital,
Fort Bragg, North Carolina
• Medical Education: Georgetown University,
Washington D.C.
• Certified in Sports Medicine and Family Medicine by the American Board of Family Medicine
• Member, American College of Sports Medicine
• Member, American Academy of Family Physicians
• Member, American Medical Society for Sports Medicine
• Clinical Advisor, American Running Association
• Board of Directors, Cancer Foundation for Life
• Board of Directors, American Medical Athletic Association
• Chairperson, Road Runners Club of America Sports Medicine Committee

Jan 23 – Billy Hibbs – Sustainable Farming/Tilapia to Vegetation

Billy Hibbs spoke about Sustainable Farming/Tilapia to vegetation.  Plus a verbal sneak preview of the new Hibbs Institute at UTT.

Chairman of Heartland Security Insurance Group in Tyler, and John Musser of Hydroponics in DeSoto, Texas.  Billy is a former President of the Tyler Rotary Club, and quietly works behind the scenes in a number of philanthropic areas.  He will introduce the idea of a three-club Rotary beta-test project in Belize to help reduce or eliminate hunger with Mr. Musser’s tilapia farming invention.

Jan 9, 2011 – Vicky Atkison ETMC EMS

Vicky Atkinson is a paramedic and has a bachelors degree from Stephen F. Austin State University.
She has been in EMS for 15 years, the last two of those years for ETMC-EMS.
In those 15 years, she has volunteered in rural Deep East Texas, worked as a dispatcher answering 911 call, worked on the ambulance for a 911 system, taught EMS courses for those that want to work on an ambulance and those that need to maintain their certification.  Currently she teaches courses but focus more on public education.

Dec 19, 2011 – STR Annual Christmas Celebration

Dec 12, 2011 – Bishop T.K Gorman Choir – Christmas Concert

Bishop T. K. Gorman High School Choir presented their annual Christmas concert to the South Tyler Rotary Club. It was an exceptional performance, directed by Mrs. Liles.  The Gorman Choir has performed for the South Tyler Rotary Club each Christmas Season for over ten years.  This musical group gets better each year.  Several members will receive musical scholarships this year upon graduation.

Dec 9, 2011 – Salvation Army Bell Ringing – Rice Rd. Brookshires

“Rotary Rings” – all Tyler Rotary Clubs rang bells at various locations for Salvation Army .  Our location was Brookshires on Rice Rd. by the coffee shop.

Dec 8, 2011 – Bike Build – Pollard UMC

Rotary Bicycle Build, Pollard UMC.  Bought a bike yet?  $50 cash or make your check out to “Pollard UMC.” Then come build with us! 6:00 p.m.

Dec 5, 2011 – Tom Mullins – Tyler Economic Development

Nov 28, 2011 – Kirk Calhoun, UTHCT

Kirk A. Calhoun, M.D., President of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler

Dr. Kirk Calhoun has been president of U. T. Health Science Center at Tyler since November 2002.  He is very active in the Northeast Texas area, including service on the Tyler Economic Development Board and the Tyler 21 Public Facilities and Services Working Group (for the future planning of Tyler).  U. T. System has utilized his services on the state Task Force on Medical Indigent Care, Task Force for Financial Exigency and he served on the selection committee to evaluate nominations for the Chancellor’s Entrepreneurship & Innovation Awards. He most recently served on the Presidential Search Committee for M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.   He serves on the Texas Hospital Association Board of Trustees, Teaching Hospitals of Texas Board of Trustees, and is Chair of the National Association of Public Hospitals Executive Committee.  Dr. Calhoun serves as co-chair of the Health Disparities, Education, Awareness Research and Training (HDEART) Consortium. Governor Rick Perry has re-appointed him as a member of the State Health Services Council and previously completed a two-year appointment on the Texas Emerging Technology Committee.

Dr. Calhoun, a native of Chicago, Illinois earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle and an M.D. from the University of Kansas School of Medicine.  He served an internship and residency in internal medicine at Northwestern University and Medical Center in Evanston, Illinois, as well as a fellowship in clinical nephrology, hypertension, and metabolism at the University of Chicago.

Nov 21, 2011 – Paul Findley – Tyler Fire Marshal

STR participated with the other two Smith County Rotary Clubs to provide a combined donation of $6,000 for the purchase of smoke alarms including some with flashing strobe lights for hearing-impaired people.  (BTW, if you wear a hearing aid, take if off and have someone test your smoke alarm – if you don’t hear it, consider purchasing a strobe smoke alarm!).

As part of our education about the necessity of smoke alarms, we learned where to place them and why, how to select the best smoke alarm for our own homes and what not to do.  I know at my house, all smoke alarms, including the hard-wired ones, will be replaced over the Thanksgiving holidays.