Escondido Sunrise Rotary; “The Few, The Proud, Women Leaders of the Marine Corps”… August 1, 2019
President Brian led the meeting…
Richard Agnew, our tech guru, led the pledge to our nation’s flag…
Past President Jack Anderson offered an invocation…
Visitors and Guests:
Richard Agnew’s father, Richard Sr. visiting from Ohio… Welcome Dad!!
Former Member (still a member at heart) Rorie Johnston…
Donna Boyce; with us to introduce her friend as our speaker, Col. Marianne Waldrop
Connie Criss; so good to see you Connie now that you are retired…
Birthdays:
August 6: Tricia Masson
Anniversaries:
July 31: Past President Barry and Lee Baker, 49 years!!!
Congratulations!!
Rotary Anniversaries:
None this week
Dates to Remember:
August 23: Bunco Night at the Putnicki’s… 6:00 PM… email Scott to grab a spot; scottp51@yahoo.com… Cost is $5 per person and bring you own ‘B’ and snacks to share…
25: Pine Valley; Softball Game with the Calafia Rotary Club from Mexicali… Players needed!!
Rotarians Having Fun, and Doing Great Things for Groups in Need:
Our project to refurbish our first ‘cabin by the lake’ at Dixon Lake. Past President Rich Aeling headed the project. Painting and cabinets and new flooring were all part of the deal. Thanks to the 17 plus that volunteered to help…
Some Rotary members were in Oregon for a ‘Golf Marathon’ at Bandon Dunes… Chris Miller, Jeff Johnson, John Boyce and Andy Ommen enjoyed their seaside golf adventure…
The photo caption should be the golf outing...
Chris Miller and Jeff Johnson providing some ‘bootie’ for President Brian from the Bandon Dunes golf trip…
High Fives and Announcements:
Past President Dave Herbert receives his ‘Past President’ badge from President Brian… Recognition of a year well spent ‘Being the Inspiration’…
Grape Day 5K Event:
Teams are actively beginning their fundraising efforts. All members are encouraged to set up their individual fundraising page which will enable all donations to be properly recorded for team credit.
As presented last week, the City is a major partner in this year’s event, allowing the start and end of the race to be held at Grape Day Park, with Broadway closed. Major sponsors are Palomar Health and the Berg Electric Foundation. The day’s activities will include ‘Tots ’N Trucks’ in the park… an event that will draw up to 3,000 children and adults… Lots of partners involved to help make this a high-impact community event….
Make your contacts, both for donations and for participants… Team standings as to funds raised… Team totals to date are shown in this slide…
Program:
Col. Marianne Waldrop was introduced by Donna Boyce…Marianne served over 24 years of both active and reserve duty in the Marine Corps, serving as an Intelligence Officer… Some highlights of her career include: “Throughout her career, she led hundreds of Marines in a variety of environments; however, the most challenging were those leadership assignments while deployed in support of four combat operations in Saudi Arabia, Africa, and Iraq. Marianne’s military career spanned over 24 years, serving from 1987-2011, when she retired in San Diego, California. Upon her retirement in 2011, Marianne attended the University of San Diego and earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Leadership Studies in May, 2016.
Col. Marianne Waldrop presenting to Sunrise Rotary members…
Marianne is from a Marine Family, her father and others served long and proudly… Graduating from college in an ROTC program, naturally she chose the Marine Corps option… What intrigued her over the years were the challenges faced by Women Marine Corps Officers… After retiring in 2011, she chose to pursue a doctoral degree in leadership. She chose a theme for dissertation relating to women succeeding in leadership roles in the Marine Corps, a male - dominated career path…
Col. Waldrop shown with a photo of her father, a retired Marine Corps Colonel…
The history of women in the Marine Corps, and promotion to General Officer rank was part of the history of women in the military, and affected her study. The first Marine Corps Woman General was appointed in 1978; the first ‘competitive class’ competing for promotion to General was in 1985… Marianne joked about the perception that the Marines are ‘knuckle draggers’… Thus the relative slowness in promoting women to General compared to other branches of the military…
She selected the ten women who have served as general officers in the Corps, to conduct extensive interviews to evaluate three key areas of career pathways in the military; the structure of the organization (rules and regulations) affecting promotion; the culture of the organization (espoused beliefs and underlying assumptions) that will affect a career; and aspects of the agency itself (actions, decisions, personal traits and temperament) that affected career longevity and promotion potential…
These slides show some statistics relative to the historical view of women General Officers in the Marine Corps…
President Brian (an Air Force veteran) pictured with Col. Marianne Waldrop…
Donna Boyce pictured with Col. Waldrop…
Next Week’s Program:
Alternatives Medical Clinic…
OpportunityDrawing:
Grand Prize: $840.00; Our Speaker, Col Marianne Waldrop had the lucky ticket… Thanks to Past President John Boyce’s generous purchase and gifting of tix… She drew a card… but, alas the pot is intact… Thanks Marianne!!
Lunch Money: $33.00… And, the winner is… Ralph Tavares…
