This Week's Program
Be the Voice that stops Bullying!
McIntyre Park Middle School Principal Tina McBride, Kim Hodge and some students presenting their program. Thomas County Middle School Principal Jamie Thompson and guest will be presenting their program. Over 13 million kids will be bullied this year, making it the most common form of violence experienced by young people in the nation. Bullying stops in less than 10 seconds when someone intervenes on behalf of the victim. 90% of children DO NOT like seeing someone bullied, yet less than 20% try to stop it …because they don’t know what to do. Our program helps students find their VOICE and speak up in situations that involve bullying.
What's Up?
Upcoming Projects & Events
Wednesday, May 23rd - Honoring our local Heroes-CNS Department, at Camp Piney Woods. Cooks 10:00 am, Setup @ 10:30 am, Lunch at noon with clean up by 1pm.
Tuesday, May 29th - Fireside Chat at Teri's Barn (900 Clyde Griffin Rd) 5:45pm Refreshments, 6:30pm Dinner, 7:15pm Program. Please register on the website or RSVP with John Glenn.
Wednesday, May 30th - Past President's Meeting TBA
Thursday, May 31st - Blood Drive at the Plaza
Tuesday, June 5th - Wine or Whine from 5:30 pm to 7 pm at Hubs & Hops.
Wednesday, June 6th - Honoring our local Heroes-EMS Department, at the Remington Ave Station. Cooks 10:00 am, Setup @ 10:30 am, Lunch at noon with clean up by 1pm.
2018 Achievement
The Rotary Foundation
Next Week's Program
Let's talk about North Korea
Professor Annika A. Culver is Associate Professor of East Asian History at Florida State University, where she specializes in Japan and Northeast Asia-related topics. She received her doctorate from the University of Chicago, and also holds an MA in Regional Studies East Asia (RSEA) from Harvard University, and a history degree from Vassar College. As a Faculty Associate affiliated with the Institute on WWII and the Human Experience, she works towards globalizing the Institute, and leads several digitization projects on collections related to the Asia-Pacific War (1937-1945) and its aftermath, including archivization of the Oliver L. Austin Photographic Collection, which features scenes of Japan under the US Occupation from the viewpoint of a Harvard-trained ornithologist under SCAP who circulated in aristocratic Japanese circles. She has received grants and fellowships from Japan Foundation (Faculty Research Fellowship, Book Subvention), Association for Asian Studies (China and Inner Asia Council/Northeast Asia Council Research Grants, First Book Subvention), Institute for Advanced Study (Visitor Affiliation), D. Kim Foundation (Research Grant), Kajima Foundation (Book Subvention), and USIIE (Fulbright). Her recent book, Glorify the Empire: Japanese Avant-Garde Propaganda in Manchukuo (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2013; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014), won the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SECAAS) 2015 book prize. It explores how once anti-imperialist Japanese intellectuals produced modernist works celebrating the modernity of a fascist state in occupied China--reflecting a complicated picture of complicity with, and ambivalence towards, Japan’s utopian project. Dr. Culver is currently co-editing a volume of transnational scholarship on the literary production of multi-ethnic writers in Japanese-occupied Northeast China: Literary Perspectives on Manchukuo, 1932-1945 (University of Hong Kong Press, forthcoming 2018). She is also writing two monographs on the advertising of western consumer products produced by Japanese companies throughout the empire from the 1880s-1945, and on Dr. Austin's scientific work in postwar Korea (1945-1946) and Occupied Japan (1946-1950).