Events

Ron Hollenbeck is a native Delawarean, and a graduate of the University of Delaware.  He spent most of his working career in the Pharmaceutical industry.  Ron’s focus was in the areas of Operations, Production Planning, and Supply Chain/Logistics.  He was a member of numerous project teams focused on Re-Engineering activities, and the implementation of Business Enterprise software.

Ron has been a BOD member of the Centerville Rotary for ten (10) years, including his year as club President during the 2016-2017 Rotary year.  Ron is in his fourth year as an Assistant Governor for District 6670.  He is a Paul Harris Society member and a Major Donor.  Ron also sits on the Board of Zoning Appeals for Washington Township.

After jobs moves which took him from Delaware to California, Maryland, England, and Pennsylvania, Ron moved to Ohio so his wife Lori could be close to her family.  They have one son and two granddaughters who live in the San Francisco area.

Ron is a terrific, consistent friend of our Rotary Club.

Ron, welcome back to Rotary at Kettering!

Ted serves as Kettering Rotary Club President for the 2022-2023 year. He is a practicing attorney, author, and teacher.

Last summer, Ohio State University and OSU Law asked Ted to design and pioneer a coursel the faculty named "Difficult Conversations in Polarized Times.". University leaders had become concerned with the low levels of tolerance on campus as students returned to in-person education and all related activities of student life.

Ted will tell us about that experience and share some of the content developed and used in that Fall 2022 course that included students from Law, Engineering, Business and other fields of study.

Why does it seem increasingly tough to talk about "difficult" things? Is this the worst it's ever been in America? Will "Uncle Rufus" ever again be welcome at Thanksgiving Dinner? What hope lies ahead for improved, productive conversation and coexistence throughout our Amerian Republic, once globally considered the leading democracy in the world?

Hon. Kimberly A. Melnick

Judge Melnick came to the Bench, in March 2022 after serving most of her 28-year career prosecuting criminal cases.

She began her career in the Prosecutor’s Office in January 1994.  In 1998, she entered private practice before returning to the Prosecutor’s Office in 2000.  From 2002 to 2006, Judge Melnick served as a Deputy District Attorney in Jefferson County, Colorado, returning to Dayton and the Prosecutor’s Office in November 2006.

At the Prosecutor’s Office, her duties included Supervising Attorney of the Grand Jury/Intake Division, Supervising Attorney for the Adult Protection Unit, as a Trial Supervisor, training and managing trial attorneys and most recently with the Violent Crimes Bureau, prosecuting only homicide cases.

Judge Melnick graduated Wright State University 1990, with a B.S. in Marketing, and earned a Juris Doctor in 1993 from the U.D. School of Law.

She is a member of the Dayton Bar Association and the Carl D. Kessler Inn of Court.  She serves on the Common Pleas Court’s Information Technology and Security Committees.

Her courtroom is Number 10, on the fourth floor, the second courtroom on the left hand side of the hallway. Hope you get the chance to visit Judge Melnick's Courtroom; just hope you are there in civliian clothes!

Judge Melnick, Welcome to Rotary at Kettering!

Every three years, the County Auditor is required by the State of Ohio to reappraise all property in the county. The Montgomery County Auditor’s Office completed a full reappraisal in 2020 and is scheduled to complete a Triennial Update of property values in 2023. Auditor Keith will be discussing the Triennial Update and how these new values will impact Montgomery County. 

Milt Hakel (HAW-kuhl) and his wife Lee are joining us from Bowling Green.

Andy Scholes connected us all together. Milt reports that Andy. at age 4, served as ring bearer at Milt and Lee's wedding! Nice work Cupid Andy!

Milt devoted his career to Organizational Psychology, and he loves to study How Things Work! Now that people are travelling again, Milt plans to take us on a tour of some of America's scenic places and cities.

Milt's best advice? Include "Blue Highways" in your car travels this year. They take you off the Interstates to places you would miss otherwise! You will find interesting people and see amazing sites. Milt will show us scenes of many he and Lee visited en route to Cape Cod (2021), New Orleans and St Paul (2022).

Welcome, Milt and Lee to Rotary at Kettering! 

Here's the full Milt Hakel Professional Story! Wow!

Milton D. Hakel is an Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University. His Ph.D. is from Minnesota (1966).  He served on faculties at Minnesota, Ohio State, and Houston before moving to BGSU in 1991, retiring in 2009. He received research support from the National Science Foundation, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Army, and the private sector.

During 43 years as a faculty member, Milt advised 79 students through the completion of their doctoral dissertations.  While at BGSU, he created Springboard, a freshman-level personal development course modeled on assessment-as-learning practices from Alverno College and intensive feedback and coaching practices from the Center for Creative Leadership.  This led in turn to R&D work on electronic portfolios as a means for documenting student growth in applying knowledge to solve practical problems. 

He edited Personnel Psychology for a decade, and then was its publisher for 20 years. He served as president of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) in 1983-84, and has just completed 13 years as the President of the SIOP Foundation.

Milt served on many committees for the National Research Council, and also for the Ohio Board of Regents.  He is a fellow of SIOP and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.