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K of A News
October 2015
Ready, set, go!
Our busiest season began as usual with an upbeat Installation Banquet on September 19 at the
Sandia Resort. Incoming President Bill Lawrence
assumed responsibilities from Jill Beets, immediately ecstatic to be the Past President.
ABOVE: 2015-16 Officers are all smiles.
BELOW: 2015-17 Directors and Bill.
Help Build a Playground
Help needed on
October 15-17 !
Details on Page
8
Not too late to
work the Balloon
Fiesta! Call Mark
Haley (573-7182)
Or visit
Kiwanisfiestawork.org
INSIDE:
● President’s Message
● October Speakers
● 2015 Award Winners
● Service Leadership Club News
● Playground Build Details
● Wisdom: 20 bits of advice
Newsletter Editor: Dave Orner
www.kiwanis-albuquerque.org
Webmaster: Steve Schroeder
dorner6@comcast.net 681-6325
SPEAKER
PROGRAM
10/5 : Bequi Livingston
“Wildfire Fighters Can Come in Small Packages”
Bequi grew up as a tomboy and elite athlete, and with the full support of her dad has become one of
the pioneer women and an international expert in wildland firefighting (at only 4’10”
and 102 lbs. ! Her true passion has always been centered around fitness and wellness, having been an elite athlete and attending college in exercise science and athletic training. Bequi owns her own personal fitness and wellness consulting business,
BodySense LLC, and currently an instructor at CNM where she is involved in the
wildland fire science program but most involved in the Fireline Fitness class which
she developed.
Bequi was instrumental in the development of the internationally acclaimed “Are You
FireFit?” program which is intended to provide the interagency wildland community
with a consistent and balanced fitness program for year-round fitness and wellness.
Bequi is currently an ACE Certified Personal Fitness Trainer, AFAA Group Fitness
Instructor, Duke University Integrative Health Coach and Human
Performance/Corporate Athlete Trainer, and teaches a variety of fitness programs
including Stretch-Out-Stress, Bequi Blast,and Fireline Fitness Boot Camp.
Bequi is married to Ronald Livingston whom she met in 1988 on a wildfire where
Bequi was a Hotshot and Ron a Helicopter Pilot. They have been married 26 years
and have four children: Mendee is an Infectious Disease Manager in Denver, Kyle is
a Black Hawk Helicopter Pilot in the US Army, Amity is a Sports Conditioning Coach
and Personal Trainer, and Parker is a wildland firefighter and finishing his fire science degree at CNM.
10/12 : Jim Strozier
“What the Heck is Santolina?”
James Strozier, AICP, Principal, has over 33 years planning experience in both the public and private sectors throughout the western
U.S. His focus is on the integration of zoning regulation with urban
design. He has extensive experience represent-ing and obtaining approval for a wide range of projects. His projects range from community
comprehensive plans and Mainstreet plans, large master planned
communities, and small redevelopment and site development plans.
Jim earned a Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning degree from
the University of Utah and a Master of Environmental Planning degree
from Arizona State University. He worked as a City Planner, a state
transportation planner, and as an Associate in two consulting firms.
He currently serves on the Albuquerque Development Commission,
and is a Past President of the New Mexico Chapter of the American
Planning Association.
SPEAKER
PROGRAM
10/19 : Bruce Merrill
“Worried About Our Water Supply?”
Demand for water is increasing as a result of growth and a warming climate (longer
growing period) but is juxtaposed against reduced supplies as a result of drought and
increased evapotranspiration caused by a warming climate. This talk will discuss how
much water we have, how we use it, and some of the constraints we face as we try to
adapt our uses to match the supplies.
Bruce Thomson joined the Civil Engineering faculty at the University of New Mexico in
the late Pleistocene epoch and currently holds the position of Research Professor and
Professor Emeritus. He was Director of UNM's Water Resources Program from 2006 to
2013. His teaching and research focus on water chemistry and treatment and water resources. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Authority (AMAFCA) in 2010 and will stand for election again in
2016. His campaign platform will be "It's time to repeal the second law of thermodynamics."
10/26 : Al Nichols
“My Free Stay in the Hanoi Hilton - the POW
Experience”
Al graduated from Annapolis in 1964. His selection for service was Naval Aviation. He received his wings in Dec 1965 and completed training for A-1 aircraft
in May 1965. He was assigned to VA-25 ( a Navy Attack Squadron ) and after a
brief training period sailed in USS Coral Sea for a two cruise tour of duty flying
attack missions in Southeast Asia.
Upon completion of this tour he reported to VT-26 as an instructor in jet
aircraft. Following transition to jets ( T F-9J ) he spent 20 months training
future naval aviators. Receiving orders to the A-7 A/B training squadron
he completed that training and reported to VA-56, flying A-7Bs. The ship
they were assigned to (USS Midway ), made a quick transit of the Pacific tin response to the North Vietnamese invasion of South Vietnam circa Easter 1972.
During a mission on 19 May 1972 he was shot down over North Vietnam and
was a "guest" of North Vietnam for the next 313 days. He was returned to US
control on 28 March, 1973.
Subsequent tours were at VA-122, VA-25 ( A-7E ) Naval Air Station Fallon NV,
USS Enterprise, and Defense Nuclear Agency at Kirtland Air Force Base, NM.
He was hired by DOE shortly after retirement from the Navy on 2 June, 1988. He retired from that organization in May, 1998.
Our Service Leadership Programs
Advisor:
Jill
Beets
Gretchen (MMES)
Debbie and
Ellen Guest
(DCES)
Highland Key Club
Elects New Officers
Dave Orner
Debbie
Edmondson
Ellen
Guest
Tanya (Secretary), Kevin (Treasurer),
and Eliu (editor) proudly display the Club
logo for their Key Club.
President Roman and VP Pholopater had
to leave the lunch hour meeting before
the photo shoot was arranged.
“There are few things more important than
to make a positive impact in the life of a
child.”
Anonymous
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Welcome to the 99th year of this Kiwanis Club here in Albuquerque. So many of you have meant so
much to this club and to the community. Albuquerque is truly a better place for children due to your generosities. Your time, talents and treasures are still needed today more
than ever. I want this year to be about children and ways we can have a
meaningful impact on their lives. We want to initiate projects that show
that we are still a prominent service organization, and motivate lots of
new members to help us continue this legacy.
There is no doubt that clubs and organizations like ours are changing.
With that in mind, I think it is important for us to change while remaining
true to our mission. “Serving One Child One Community At A Time.” I
task each of you to have an open mind as we approach this year. I will
probably do things that some will love and some will hate. The important thing for you to know is that I am doing them because I believe in
what all of you have done and continue to do serving this community.
It is vitally important to me to that we pass on the ideals of this Club
and of service to others, to my generation, and the generations that follow. Especially to my sons Cole and Davis. So I ask you to join me in a
year that hopefully will start us on a new path that makes the next 100
years of the Kiwanis Club of Albuquerque as successful as the first 100
years.
I leave you with a quote from Lou Holtz.
It is up to us to shape the future of this club. I look forward to doing it with you.
President, Kiwanis Club of Albuquerque
This Kiwanian newsletter is the unofficial publication of the Kiwanis Club of Albuquerque and its Charitable Foundation. Serious efforts are made to
release editions at the beginning of each month. Members are encouraged to share this newsletter with friends and likely members of our club. Comments and suggestions are encouraged: write to Dave Orner (bottom of Page 1) who may forward it to the relevant Officer or Committee Member. Official Kiwanis correspondence should be mailed to Box 21517, Albuquerque, NM 87154
Officers 2015-2016
President
President Elect
Vice President
Immediate Past President
Treasurer
Secretary
William A Lawrence Jr.
Mark Haley
Jeff Rowe
Jill Beets
Mary Jo Dawson
Michael Vigil
Board of Directors
2014-2016
Steve Bass
Fran DiMarco
Robert Cain
Michael Shepherd
2015-2017
Bob Stewart
Bob Rider
Jeff Anderson
Susan Ng
Awards Presented to
Nine Stalwart Members
Recognition and gratitude are two benefits which hopefully accrue from the hard work of
fundraising and community service. The following people were recognized recently, and all our
members are encouraged to thank them profusely for their efforts on behalf of our Club.
Walter P. Zeller Fellowships: Mary Jo Dawson and Michael Vigil
George F. Hixson Fellowships: Mark Haley and Susan Jennings
Kachina Award: Phyllis Cooper
Special Service Awards: Bill Archibeck, Steve Bass, David Heiman,
and Susan Ng
{Dave Heiman
is shown pointing out the Jim
Hansen Pumpkin Patch at the
Kiwanis Learning Garden}
K Kids at Manzano
Mesa Off to a Fast Start
Multiple activities have been completed and a big new one is under way for the dynamic K Kids Club
at Manzano Mesa Elementary, which happens to be a “Community School.” Under the leadership of
4th grade teacher Valerie Holton and energetic support from Gretchen Steininger of our club, this K
Kids chapter certainly rivals any elementary program for community action, education by doing, and for
fundraising.
The Buddy Walk:
The 6th Annual Buddy Walk hosted by the Rio Grande Down Syndrome Network was held on September 26, 2015. The Buddy Walk was created by the National Down Syndrome Society in 1995 to celebrate Down Syndrome Awareness Month in October. In 2014, more than $13 million was raised
nationwide. There were 7-8 K-Kids that participated in the walk this past weekend around the North
grounds of the Albuquerque Balloon Museum and medals were awarded out to all with Down Syndrome and children under 12 years of age.
The First Day of K-Kids:
The Manzano K-Kids program kick-started the year with the kids splitting up into groups of 3-4 and
making a list of all the community service projects and fund raisers that they did last school year. All of
the previous K-Kids and officers returned and introduced themselves to the newbies, making a total of
at least 20 K-Kids.
They also started to make their individual "positive statement" poster to hang in the hallways of the
school. They will take turns reading these statements during the Announcements on many mornings to
everyone in the school. Mrs. Holton has new projects planned, including the “Fitness-Thon” on
Saturday, November 7th from 10 am to 12 pm at the school as a fundraiser. Flyers
will be passed out at Monday meetings, and our Club members are encouraged to support this event in
one of many ways: by participating in a public display of fitness, buying an ad or a sponsorship, or selling ads and sponsorships. One exciting way we could make a big show of support on Nov. 7 would be
to stage a Kiwanis Club adult Flash Mob Dance to show the community we can play and dance as well