Speakers
Let’s learn something.
Each week, we welcome a guest to join us for our club meeting. These speakers present on a variety of topics from community organizations and service projects, local history, and events.
Service
We are eager to hear how individuals and/or organizations are serving others—locally and globally.
Ideas
We love learning from others and welcome innovative concepts and new perspectives.
Collaboration
We are open to opportunities to collaborate with other community organizations and activities.
Through the years, we’ve had the opportunity to hear from dozens of engaging speakers on a variety of interesting topics.
2022 SPEAKERS
- Sarah Potter – Out of the Cold: Centre County
- Helen Dempsey – Buy Nothing Project
- Dr. Victoria Sanchez – The Penn State Powwow
- Kikora Franklin – Roots of Life
- Nandu Desai and Jeane Singer – Rotary Global Grant
- Kendra Gettig – Out of the Cold
- Douglas Harbach – Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board
- Eric Sloss – Freedom Ride
- Heather Descorie – Pollination
- Harland Patch – Penn State Center for Pollinator Research
- Margaret Brittingham – Pollination
- Pam Velasquez – Special Olympics
- Jaya Sravanthi Mokkapati – Penn State Center for Pollinator Research
- Christine Faust – Centre County PAWS
- Scott Walker – State College Spikes
- Aayalah Harrison
- Dr. Howard Woodruff – Centre LifeLink EMS
- Scott Rawson – Centre County Coroner’s Office
- Cheryl White – Center Volunteers in Medicine
- Ann Echols – Volunteer Centre County
- John Peterson – Penn State Small Business Development Center
- Frank Harchak – Privy Digging
- Michael Molony – Climb Nittany
2021 SPEAKERS
- Jennifer Schwartzenberg – Kitty Hawk Rotary Club
- Molly Kunkel – Centre Foundation
- Sarah Wylie – Experience as a Rotary Youth Exchange Student
- David Klementik – Naval Aviation (Outgoing President Evening Rotary Club)
- Heidi Beaver – Singing Onstage
- Leanne Lenz – Health and Empowerment
- Morgan Wasikonis and Pete Kurtz-Glovas – Housing Transitions and Centre County Office of Adult Services
- Scott Walker and Joe Putnam – State College Spikes
- Maude “Pix” Tarbox and Stephen “Chowder” Feraco – Camp Kessem Central PA
- Bridget Flickinger, MD – Centre Emergency Medical Associates
- Karen Armstrong – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Ken Hull – Access Fund
- Elaine Meder-Wilgus – Finding Ways to Serve the Happy Valley Community during the Pandemic (Webster’s Bookstore Cafe)
- Evelyn Wald and Caryn Blanchard – Center for Alternatives in Community Justice and Centre County Community Conferencing
- Marisa Vicere – Jana Marie Foundation and the Stompers Project
- Beth Shaha – Stepping Towards the Way of Integrity
- Tyler Gum – Pennsylvania Military Museum
- Cynthia Reese – Rotary Club of San Ignacio, Belize
- Harland Patch – Pollinators
- Bonnie Goble – The Rivet
- TBD – Blue Brick Theatre and Happy Valley Improv
- TBD – Juniata Valley Council Boy Scouts
- TBD – Rhonymeade
- Jennifer Shuey – Centre County Farmland Trust
- TBD – Palmer Museum of Art
- Terry Watson – Strategies for Justice
- Dana Orsini – District Governor
- Andrea Murrell – Clearwater Conservancy
- Elizabeth Brady
- TBD – Penn State Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity
- Arlene Brown – Urukundo School – Rwanda
- Ford Risley – Encyclopedia of Centre County History & Culture
2020 SPEAKERS
- Leanne Lenz – Centre Helps
- Robin Cain – Centre County Foster Parent Program
- Shannon Quick and Tammy Harrington – Centre for Community Resources
- Evan Manna – Undergraduate President Evans Scholars House
- Josh Nelson – Applied Health and Performance Science
- Doug Meyer – Nittany Performing Arts Centre
- Maude Tarbox and Cheyenne Johnson – Camp Kesem
- Ciara Halloran – Social Butterfly Installation and partnership with the Butterfly Effect
- Marisa Vicere – Jana Marie Foundation
- Tim Simpson – MASC (Manufacturing and Sterilization for COVID-19) COVID-19 response at Penn State
- Lisa Bahr – Centre County PAWS
- Frank Savino – Central PA 4thFest
- Benjamin Fehl – Crooked House Project
- Karen Weiss – Dream Big Coaching, LLC
- Tom Clouser – Clouser Farm Enterprises – Process of supplying grain to Big Spring Spirits
- Brian Allen – Black Lives Matter
- Melanie Miller-Foster – Global Connections
- Cathi Alloway – Schlow Centre Region Library‘s Pandemic Response
- Dina Liberatore – AAUW Book Sale
- Dr. Dennis Scanlon – Center for Health Care and Policy Research
- Rob Schmitt – Downtown Improvement District
- Rodney Sepich – Coronavirus Update
- Joseph Milek – University Police
- Irvin Wright – District Governor
- Kathy Krinks – Rotary Youth Exchange
- Lindsey Whisel Fenton – WPSU’s Speaking Grief Initiative
- Thomas Range and Lew Lazarow – Penn State and the History of Blue Band
- Michelle Dimidio – Alliance for G.O.O.D.
- Dr. Ashley Waters – Rotary Club of Carroll Creek
- Zach Barton – Leadership Centre County
- Leza Ailsworth Fuller – Rotary Club of Gainesville
2019 SPEAKERS
- Devin Mathias – Fundraising
- Tamar London – LGBTQA
- Debbie Lower – Park Forest Preschool
- Tyler Smith – Basketball and Called for Traveling book
- Dee Bagshar – the “Bee Lady”
- Jennifer Karch – AAUW Book Sale
- Danny Shaha – Penn State Student Affairs
- Faith Ryan – Centre County Adult Services
- Ed LeClear – State College Borough Planning
- Morgan Wasikonis – Housing Transitions
- Andy Haines – Gatesburg Road Development
- Junior Women’s Club – Elves Gift Shop
- Jeffrey Coup – Rotary Foundation and Polio Plus
- Rick Bryant – Draw the Line
- Katie Schumacher-Cawley – PSU Volleyball
- Jenny Miller – The Little Lion Fund
- Fritz Smith – Visit Penn State
- Kristen Miller – Rotary Youth Exchange Experience
- Ann Sepich – Rotary Youth Exchange Experience
- Renee Gerringer – Ronald McDonald House – Danville
- Megan Roberts – Friends of Golden Pond
- April Staab – RYLA
- Lorenz Kruse – Rotary Youth Exchange Student from Germany
- David Woodward – State College Spikes Baseball
- Kaden Litzenger – Rotary Youth Exchange Student from Argentina
- Jennifer Heltzel – Farming
- Swan Stall – District Governor
- Laurence Mroz – Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra
- Dennis Calvin – Spotted Lanternfly
- Evelyn Wald – The Center for Alternatives in Community Justice
- Meghan Doebler – Jr. Woman’s Club of State College Elves Gift Shop
- Travis Lesser – Appalachian Food Works
2018 SPEAKERS
- Jeff Kampersal – Lady Lions Hockey Coach
- Scott Mitchell – YMCA
- Tyler Gum – Pennsylvania Military Museum
- Shawn Kauffman – Centre Regional EMS
- Carol Lloyd – Visiting Rotary Clubs
- Betsy Boyer – Centre Crest Auxiliary
- Tammy Genzel – CCUW Raising Readers
- Robert Verik – Trout Unlimited
- Chris Keiver – Penn State Choir
- Susan Venegoni – State College Community Land Trust
- Joe Battista – Pragmatic Passion
- Debbie Trudeau – Fair Districts PA – Centre County
- TBD – Centre Foundation
- Mary Wombacker – Discovery Space
- TBD – Centre Volunteers in Medicine
- Vicki Fong – Constitution Day
- Sarah Williamson – CCWRC
- Dan Trew – Clearwater Convervancy
- Trish Shallenberger – A Soldier’s Hand
- Windy Vinhage – Interfaith – Over the Edge
- Joy Zhu – Rotary Youth Exchange Experience
- Melissa Kauffman – Millbrook Marsh
- Rob Schmidt – Downtown Improvement District
- Spud Marshall – The Co. Space
- Kendra and David Taylor – K2 Roots
- Tori Wilt – Pink Sisters in Christ
- Shelley Ishler – Post Baccalaureate Education in School District
- Eric Barron – Penn State
- Sheryl Leaman and Susan Romanini – Common Food Centre County
- Melinda Stearns and Barry Bram – Center for the Performing Arts
- Tammy Miller – Auction for World Polio Day
- Kieran T. Holland – Ten Thousand Villages
- Carolyn Donaldson – WPSU
- Rick Bryant – First Night State College
2017 SPEAKERS
- Pam Strouse – Discovery Space
- Tom Zilla – CCMPO Transportation Planning
- Carol Falke – Urukundo Foundation
- Ken Martin – American Philatelic Society
- Susan Kroeker – Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra
- Paul Moser – PSU Steam Services
- Carol Eicher – Community Diversity Group
- Michael Hermann – Purple Lizard Maps
- Kevin Abby – Clearwater Conservancy
- Susan Sampsell – Janis’s Angels
- Cindy Pasquienelli – Strawberry Fields
- Catherine Arbogast – Centre County Drug and Alcohol
- Erica Vezza and Wes Chicko – Home Instead
- Scott Rawson – What Happens When you Call an Ambulance
- Jason Tartalone – Active Shooter Response
- Marisa Vicere – Jana Marie Foundation
- Rachel Fawcet – Centre County Housing and Land Trust
- Joe Widenburg and Jim Prowant – Ten Thousand Villages
- Tom King – State College Borough
- Judge Pamela Ruest
- Sarah Anderson – OLLI
- Charima Young – Penn State Government Relations
- TBD – Mt. Nittany Hospital
- Brian Kenney – The Barn at Lamont
- Mike Hornby – District Governor
- Amy Cotner – PSU Office of Sexual Misconduct and Prevention
- Anna Barone – PSU Student Care and Advocacy
- Kenneth Feldmann – PSU Office of Student Conduct
- Matt Freeman – PSU Twirler
- Lori Fischer – Bellefonte Art Museum
- Jessica Kim-Schmidt – Office of Science Outreach – Eberly College of Science
- Dr. Michael Walker – Quantum Fuzz
- Andrea Fischer – Centre County Youth Services Bureau
- Chief John Gardner – State College Police
- Alexa & Payton – Camp Kesem
- Justine Andronici – Puerto Rico Recovery NOW
- Brad Fey – Becoming a FAA Certified Drone Pilot
2016 SPEAKERS
- • Cindy Kolarik – The Jared Box Project
- James Einstein – Friends and Family Co-Op
- Ann Walker – Child Care Information Services
- Erik Fetter – AIDS Resource
- Judge Thomas King Kistler
- Ali Turley – Youth Services Bureau Survey Data
- Angela Niazmand and Hamza Koudri – Humphrey Fellowship Program
- Marc McCann – Global Connections
- Pam Soule – Out of the Cold
- Al Matyasovsky – Veteran’s Education and Advancement Fund (VEAF)
- Katie Tenny – Stand for State
- Andy Reisinger – Teener League Baseball
- Blake Burdette – Penn State Rugby
- Mike Stauss – PSU East Halls Renovation Project
- Ed LeClear – Planning and Community Development
- Raymond Najjar, Jr – Professor of Oceanography
- Jessie Pierce and Jeremy Swarm – FoodCentres Project
- Jennifer Stahl and Morgan Wasikonis – Housing Transitions
- Officer Kelly Aston – Centre County Drug Enforcement and Camp Cadet
- Ephraim Govere – PSU Soil Research
- Joaquin Elios – Rotary Youth Exchange Student from Brazil
- Cathi Alloway – Schlow Library Community Survey
- Angie Williams – Dyslexia Reading Center of Central PA
- Maeredith Thompson – MNMC Volunteers
- Brad Fey – Fest Zero
- Jeannie Drago – Rotary Youth Exchange Experience
- Prof. Shoba Wadhia – Penn State Law Clinic
- Beth Shaha – 2016 Buddy Walk
- Susan Venergoni – State College Community Land Trust
- Nicole Webster – United Nations Association of Centre County
- Bella Bregar – ACRES Project
- District Governor
- Mark Higgins – County Commissioner
- Rick Tetzlaff – Leadership Centre County
- Tammy Gentzel – Centre County United Way
- Peggy Lindsey – Chaplain at Mount Nittany Medical Center
- Jennifer Shuey – Centre County Farmland Trust
- Shamokin Joe – PSU Rotaract
- Mel Curliss – YMCA School Backpack Program
- Mike Hendrickson – Blue White TV
- Angie Redmond – Be Well Associates
- Hugh Mose – Driving for Uber
- Andy Moir – United Against Heroin Addiction
2015 SPEAKERS
- Mark Whitfield – Rotary Youth Exchange
- Rachel Fawcett – Centre County Land Trust
- Jackie Esposito – University Archives
- Betsy Howell – Central PA Convention and Visitors Bureau
- Deb Latta – Center for Performing Arts
- Shawn Kauffman – Regional Fire Protection
- Tom Snyder – SC Police Youth Programs
- The Nittany Lion
- Morgan Wasikonis – Housing Transitions
- Barnara Geist – Park Forest Preschool
- Ellen Campbell and Lynn Rogers – “Scraps and Skeins”
- Marie Doll – Art Alliance of Central PA
- Celeste Newcomb – GSE Trip to Denmark
- Ted Onufrak – CCRRA’s plans for a CNG Station
- Bill and Janet Haner – Meals on Wheels
- Amber Concepcion – State College School Board
- Phil Esten – Penn State Athletics
- Col Steve Drago (USAF) – Military to Medic
- Joe Putnam – Voice of State College Spikes
- Pinky and Girls – State College Roller Derby
- Ashton Munez – Hearts for the Homeless
- Dave Saxe – Nittany Theater at the Boal Barn
- Bob Oberhein – Ag Progress Days
- Marisa Vicere – Jana Marie Foundation
- Sue Patterson and Pam Fuller – Bridge of Hope Centre County
- Diane and John Bittikofer and Max – Canine Companions
- Christa Hosterman – Book Benches of Centre County
- Jeannie Drago – Rotary Youth Exchange Experience
- Beth Shaha – Center County United Way Day of Caring
- Aileen Galley – Mount Nittany Cancer Center Prevention and Screening
- Tere Rill – 100+ Women Who Care
- Joaquin – Rotary Youth Exchange Experience
- Steve Watson – PSU Planner
- Joyce Robinson – Palmer Museum of Art
- Duke Gastinger – : “RE” Buzzwords
- Dr. Renata Engel – Associate Vice Provost for Online Programs at Penn State
- Marc Warren – Customer Follow-up
- David Gibbins – Cloud my Office
- Rick Bryant – First Night State College
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