Another busy week at Rotary! We got the insider scoop on our amazing new Frisco Library thanks to our guest speaker Shelley Holley, Library Director. Frisco just keeps raising the bar on “great cities to work and live”!!! We also had a fun meet and greet this week at Classic Wine Storage. Thanks to all that were able to make it out!
Director of Benevolent Services at Freedom Hospice
A native of Vicksburg, MS, he moved to Texas to attend Baylor University. His career has been spent entirely at community organizations focused in some way on the provision of services to the aging in the community. The past twenty years has been with hospice organizations in areas of fundraising and volunteer management. Currently, he is Director of Benevolent Services at Freedom Hospice. Through his experience both personally and professionally with hospice, he has become passionate about educating families about the benefits of hospice and dispelling some of the myths and misconceptions about hospice care so that when they are faced with end-of-life decisions about loved ones, they can make informed choices.
Jon has been a member of the Southlake Rotary Club for just over 3 years and is excited and humbled to be serving as its President during the 2022-2023 year. As a Rotarian, he has enjoyed learning about the amazing work that people are doing in our community and even world-wide to help improve the lives of others. In Rotary, he has found a group of like-minded people wanting to build a better world.
Jon met, Judi, his wife of 15 years on E-Harmony. They have 2 children – the four legged kind –Corgis, Winnie and Bentley. In addition to spending time with the dogs, Jon and Judi enjoy cooking, working in their back yard and travel. They are members of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth. Jon is a Christmas fanatic – an entire room in their house is taken up year -round by a Department 56 Dickens Village scene. Over the past 4 years, Jon has identified and portrayed his alternate persona - Santa Claus. He is even a graduate of the world’s longest running Santa Claus School, the Charles W. Howard Santa School, in Midland Michigan.
Major Announcement
The Rotary Club of Frisco is moving its meeting location
On Thursday, August 18, 2022 @ 12 noon our club is permanently moving to Stonebriar Country Club. After months of looking and reviewing over 20 different sites the 2022-2023 Rotary Club of Frisco Board of Directors has voted unanimously on this move.
The board is excited about the move to Stonebriar Country Club. It is a beautiful and professional location that will allow us to step up the club’s public image along with room to grow our club to its potential for size of the area. It will also allow for greater fundraising opportunities and events. Some of the other benefits of this location are; meeting rooms - there are three spaces we can use dependent on size of meeting, AV, podium, microphones, tables, table clothes and centerpieces included, valet parking for those who want to use it for health, weather, or convenience reasons, They have the American and Texas Flags. Thank you, Mike Simpson for making this happen.