The Sunrise Rotary Club of Mobile devoted its first June 2009 meeting to a report on China by two local portfolio managers, days after honoring high school athletes from McGill-Toolen and Baker.
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Mobile County DHR Director Tells Rotarians Poverty and Illiteracy Travel Together
Rose Johnson, director of the Mobile County Department of Human Resources, addressed the Sunrise Rotary Club on poverty and what she called its co-conspirator, illiteracy.
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Second Gulf Coast Commercial Real Estate Summit Convenes in Downtown Mobile
The second annual Gulf Coast Commercial Real Estate Summit and Market Review was held at the Arthur R. Outlaw Convention Center, organized by University of South Alabama professor Don Epley.
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Adult Literacy Tutor Tells Mobile Rotarians How Grown Students Doubled Their Reading Skills
Lydia Gaudet of Goodwill Easter Seals told the Sunrise Rotary Club of Mobile about an adult literacy program whose students, most reading below a third-grade level, doubled their skills in a year.
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From Manila to Mobile: Estella Dorn and the Festival That Taught a City Its Neighbors
The executive director of the Mobile International Festival, born in the Philippines and a Mobilian since 1984, addressed the Sunrise Rotary Club on the event that has introduced schoolchildren to the world since 1982.
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St. Paul’s Students Raise $1,717 for the Heart Association on Wear Red Day
An out-of-uniform day and a bake sale at St. Paul’s Episcopal School turned National Wear Red Day into $1,717 for the American Heart Association, all of it raised by the school’s Interact Club and service leadership class.
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Port Director Jimmy Lyons Briefed Sunrise Rotary as Mobile’s Docks Boomed
Alabama State Port Authority chief Jimmy Lyons addressed the Sunrise Rotary Club of Mobile in February 2009, with a $100 million Pinto Island terminal under way to serve the ThyssenKrupp steel mill.
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Russell Ladd’s ‘Delta Awareness’ Took Sunrise Rotary Into the Mobile-Tensaw Swamp
A twelve-minute film drawn from six decades in the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta was the program at the Sunrise Rotary Club of Mobile on Feb. 4, 2009, along with a warning about the delta’s decline.
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St. Luke’s Headmaster Palmer Kennedy Outlined a High School and a $10 Million Campaign
St. Luke’s Episcopal School had bought the old Julius T. Wright campus on University Boulevard and was raising $10 million to add an upper school. Headmaster Palmer Kennedy laid out the plan for Mobile’s Sunrise Rotary Club.
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Senior Bowl Week Brought Phil Savage Back to Sunrise Rotary’s Podium
The Mobile native and recently departed general manager of the Cleveland Browns made his traditional Senior Bowl week appearance before the Sunrise Rotary Club of Mobile in January 2009.