Girdwood Rotary Club Meeting Programs & Speakers
July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2025 Programs (Ron Burson, President)
July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2025 Programs (Jody Liddicoat, President)
July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2025 programs (Carol Howerton, President)
July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2006 programs (David Alexander, President)
Meetings will begin each Thursday promptly at 7 pm at the Hotel Alyeska, unless otherwise noted on the calendar below. Please check the marquee in the hotel lobby to verify the meeting room. For more information, contact our current president.
| 2007 - 2008 Rotary Year | |||
| Meeting Date | Speaker | Subject | Sponsor |
| July 4, 2025 | no speaker | Potluck dinner at President Jody Liddicoat's home | Jody Liddicoat |
| July 6, 7 & 8 | no speaker | Forest Fair Parking by Girdwood Rotary | Ron Burson |
| July 12, 2025 | Dae Fallah Bah and Kumba Jao | will tell about their trip to Gambia to visit Jibbeh Bah and the Kitchen Girdwood Rotary supported there. (Tom and Lenore Yeager have traveled quite a bit, but The Gambia was a new experience for each of them. Hear about the heat, the heart warming greeting, and Rotary’s contribution.) | David Alexander |
| July 19, 2025 | Larry Daniels, Alyeska Resort | on some of the things brewing with the new resort plans | David Alexander |
| July 26, 2025 | John Hakala, U.S. Department of Labor | on Apprenticeship Training. This office along with UAA’s Center for Human Development is starting health care apprenticeships next year. | David Alexander |
| August 2, 2025 | Dierdre Cronin, Executive Director, or Carletta Mack, Deputy Director, Covenant House | on the 4,000 plus homeless youth in Anchorage. | David Alexander |
| August 9, 2025 | Jennifer Payne, Dowl Engineers, and Dennis Falldorf, Wilder Construction | speaking and showing visuals of the Glenn-Bragaw intersection which will provide a highway overpass. The project is the first step of the city’s #1 transportation priority, the “Highway to Highway Connection” which will eventually link the Glenn and Seward Highways. | David Alexander |
| August 16, 2025 | Tom Morgan, Communities in Schools Executive Director | speaking about the Imagination Library efforts sponsored by Rotary in Alaska | David Alexander |
| August 23, 2025 | Social event | 7:00 pm at Ron Burson home | Ron Burson |
| August 30, 2025 | Tommy O’Malley & Thalia Wilkinson | on the Girdwood Fine Arts Camp in its 21st year in our town. Our club sponsored a child for the camp. | David Alexander |
| September 6, 2025 | Tyler Robinson, Director of the MOA Department of Neighborhoods | on planning in individual communities within Anchorage | David Alexander |
| September 13, 2025 | Rosey Fletcher |
speaking on preparation for competitive snowboarding and the adventures leading up to and following her medal victory |
David Alexander |
| September 20, 2025 | Jesse & Leah Scott | Talking about their participation in the People to People program Australian trip this summer | David Alexander |
| September 22, 2025 | Seward Highway Cleanup | bags and vests will be provided but you'll need gloves and boots and lots of volunteer help. We'll meet behind Coast Pizza at 9 am. | Jody Liddicoat |
| September 27, 2025 | Teresa Nelson, AWAIC | Director of Development, AWAIC | CeCe Mendonsa |
| October 4, 2025 | Barbara Mahoney and Brad Davis of NOAA | will explain the situation with our Girdwood Beluga Whales and their precipitous population drop. | David Alexander |
| October 5, 2025 | Girdwood Health Fair setup | meet at the Lady of the Snows Community Center at about 3:30 pm for setup. It will take about 2 hours | Diana Livingston |
| October 6, 2025 | Girdwood Health Fair & Cleanup | The Health Fair is from 9 am to about 1:00 pm | Diana Livingston |
| October 11, 2025 | Bob Juliussen | Cook Inlet Housing Authority Community Building Program- energy efficient, affordable housing designs used in Mountain View | David Alexander |
| October 18, 2025 | Girdwoodian Cindy Nielsen |
Rolfing can lead to better physical and emotional health. It is a system of soft tissue manipulation with the objective of realigning the body structurally and harmonizing its fundamental movement patterns in relation to gravity. Cindy will demonstrate with help from one of our members. |
Jody Liddicoat |
| October 25, 2025 |
Members Anne Hays and Hank Hosford |
Members Anne Hays and Hank Hosford will do the vocational talks this week as the key piece of our Rotary Vocational Month recognition. will do the vocational talks this week as the key piece of our Rotary Vocational Month recognition. |
Jody Liddicoat |
| November 1, 2025 | Larry Daniels, VP Alyeska Resort | Larry Daniels will review the Alyeska Resort Master Plan at our Rotary Meeting. | Larry Daniels |
| November 8, 2025 | Lana Johnson | Lana will give us the latest on the Petroleum Profits Tax - what is in store for tax policy for Alaska? How much change is likely, if any? | Lana Johnson |
| November 15, 2025 |
Girdwood resident Jay Wenge |
Jay Wenger and his family picked Girdwood as their home after time in India. Jay speak on the Centers for Disease Control and their cooperation with Rotary on the eradication of polio plus the work he did in India for 11 years. |
David Alexander |
| November 22, 2025 |
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| November 29, 2025 | Mike Loso, Alaska Pacific University | Mike will speak on his trek across the glacier field from Girdwood to Eklutna and the retreat of glacial ice in Alaska. | Tom Yeager |
| December 6, 2025 * | Annual Meeting | Election of Officers for 2008 - 2009 year | Jody Liddicoat |
| December 13, 2025 |
Jen Weits, co-owner of Jack Sprat’s |
Jen Weits will tell us about the health benefits of food that is not processed , on the best vegetables - right out of the ground - and how they lead to healthier living day after day. She will let us know how we can take advantage of them and give us some great ideas on eating well. |
Ron Burson |
| December 20, 2025 | Hugh & Janet Gellert | Eat Healthy with the pure food prepared by the excellent Girdwood Rotary Chefs. This is an event for all of us by all of us at Hugh and Janet’s home on the newly named and oldly potholed Alyeska View Avenue (which rhymes if you say it three times fast) | Hugh Gellert |
| December 27, 2024 | Lana Johnson, Girdwood Inc. |
Jon Domela was remembering Alyeska before the lifts were installed a couple years ago, and he talked about the Roundhouse going up and the first tows and t-bars up our hill. Hear the whole story from Lana this week up on top of the Mountain at the New Roundhouse Museum. |
Lana Johnson |
| January 3, 2025 | Composer/Pianist Kris Spike | Kris will play a piece by Stavinsky for us in the Aurora Lounge following our dinner | Jen Wingard |
| January 10, 2025 | USFS Ranger Tim Charnon | USFS Ranger Tim Charnon who is from Girdwood will provide an overview of the U.S. Forest Service plans for 2008 in the Girdwood area | David Alexander |
| January 17, 2025 |
Marty McGee - Anchorage Assessor. |
joins us to discuss both residential and commercial tax assessments and what changes have taken place in the Municipality recently. Please bring your questions | Larry Daniels |
| January 24, 2025 | District Governor Maynard Gross | Rotary and District 5010 - Check the Marquee in the lobby for meeting room | DG Maynard Gross |
| January 31, 2025 | Town League Ski Races | Fellowship meeting is at the Sitzmark at 7 pm following Town League Races | Jody Liddicoat |
| February 3, 2025 | Super Bowl Sunday at McCoy's | Fellowship & Paul Harris Foundation Fund Raising Event at George McCoy's home | George McCoy |
| February 7, 2025 | Pillars of America Presentation | Check the Marquee in the lobby for meeting room | David Alexander |
| February 14, 2025 | Social Fellowship at the Sitz | Fellowship meeting is at the Sitzmark at 7 pm following Town League Races | Jody Liddicoat |
| February 21, 2025 |
Paul Allred |
Ouzel Expeditions |
David Alexander |
| February 28, 2025 | Kirk Hoessle, Alaska Wildland Adventures | Check the Marquee in the lobby for meeting room | David Alexander |
| March 6, 2025 | Social Fellowship at the Sitz | Fellowship meeting is at the Sitzmark at 7 pm following Town League Races | Jody Liddicoat |
| March 13, 2025 | Lou Theiss, School Bonds in April elections | Check the Marquee in the lobby for meeting room | Jody Liddicoat |
| March 20, 2025 | Brooke Edwards | Brooke Edwards will talk to us about Telepalooza scheduled March 28th - 30th | Jody Liddicoat |
| March 27, 2025 | Mike Miller, AWCC | Mike will talk about the conservation effort to reintroduce the Wood Bison back to Alaska. | Ron Burson |
| April 3, 2025 | John Hickox |
John will reintroduce our club to Rotary with a presentation of its history and goals |
Ron Burson |
| April 10, 2025 | Hugh & Janet Gellert | This will be a farewell party for George & Mary McCoy and Skip & Liz Minder, who are moving from the area. | Hugh Gellert |
| April 17, 2025 | Victoria Kondor, Blood Bank of Alaska | Victoria is doing a presentation on the Blood Drive scheduled for be Saturday, April 26 from 10 to 3 in conjunction with the annual Slush Cup. | Jody Liddicoat |
| April 24, 2025 | Nathan Lukes, DDS | Nathan Lukes will have a PowerPoint presentation on his trip providing goodwill dentistry to people in Vietnam. | David Alexander |
| May 1, 2025 | TBA | Alyeska Hotel cannot host us - Check the banner on the home page for the latest information | |
| May 8, 2025 | District Conference | 5010 District Conference in Soldotna | DG Maynard Gross |
| May 15, 2025 | Alaskans Against the Mining Shutdown | The group “Alaskans Against the Mining Shutdown” will explain some of the incongruities in the logic of shutting off mining in our resource rich state. | Lana Johnson |
| May 22, 2025 | Larry Snider, Consumer Credit Counseling Service | Larry Snider, a charter member and past president of Anchorage South, will present on the Consumer Credit Counseling Service | CeCe Mendonsa |
| May 29, 2025 | Jonnie Lazarus, Parks & Recs |
Jonnie will explain the need for a skateboard park, what is going on right now and what we hope to achieve. |
Jody Liddicoat |
| June 5, 2025 | Becky Germain, Polaris School Teacher | Becky Germain will show photos and talk about their adventures on a recent trip to Africa with her students | Ron Burson |
| June 12, 2025 | David Alexander, President of Nine Star Enterprises | ||