June 10, 2009
Our speaker this week is David Bagwell, whose talk is titled “Alabama History Your Teachers Didn’t Teach You: The Frenchman Louis LeClerc Milfort as War General of the Creeks Under Alexander McGillivray’s Chieftanship."
David is a lawyer in Fairhope, a failed utopian colony on a backwater slough in South Alabama.
David graduated from Vanderbilt 41 years ago in
1968, and traveled around the world for a year
studying International Business on a Corning
Traveling Fellowship. After that, almost exactly 40
years ago he went straight into Army bootcamp at
Fort Polk, Louisiana, where he learned two skills
that are very useful in the modern world today:
how to bayonet men, and how to “type,” as they
called it back then before they had computers and
what they now call “keyboards.” He was on guard
duty at an ammo dump at Fort Polk late one night
forty years ago when man first walked on the
moon.
for three and a half decades, and for five years back in the early 1980s he was a “B Team Federal Judge” when he was U.S. Magistrate for the Southern District of Alabama. David sought a Federal Judgeship twice, each time losing by only three votes: the president and both Senators from his state. David says that not getting to be a Federal Judge was the best thing that ever happened to him.
He has been listed for almost 20 years in “The Best Lawyers in America” in the field of Business Litigation, and for a few years, the field of Antitrust. He was recently picked as one of four Antitrust “superlawyers” in Alabama, but he says it isn’t a very big deal because only three lawyers in Alabama would recognize antitrust if it bit their rear ends.
David was President of the Rotary Club of Mobile in 1992, back when they had 80% attendance. He is a past Assistant District Governor and is now a member of the Point Clear Rotary Club.
Every Rotarian Every Year
The Mobile Sunrise Rotary asks each member to consider donating a $100 to meet the Every Rotarian Every Year goal to support the Rotary Foundation. When you contribute $100 or more each year to the Foundation’s Annual Programs Fund, you become a Rotary Foundation Sustaining Member. Your generosity enables Rotarians to work together across oceans and vast terrain to find innovative solutions to complex problems that plague villagers in remote areas as well as urban concerns.
Go Fish
The inaugural Rotaract Fishing Tournament is Saturday, June 27 at Dauphin Island Marina. The entry fee is $25 per fisherman with inshore/offshore categories of speckled trout, flounder, red snapper and king mackerel. Click here for more information.
Birthdays
- June 11 – Bob Williams & Guy O’Connor
Lights, camera, action for Interactors
Interactors, here's your chance to become filmmakers. Grab a camera and make a video, three minutes or less, about what Interact means to you. Then enter it in our first official Interact video contest.
The contest began June 1 and ends Sept. 15.
Something in common
Rotary Fellowships offer Rotarians the opportunity to make friends who share a common vocation, hobby, or recreational interest. From antique cars to yachting, Rotary Fellowships have been busy.
Your Voice, Your Solution for facing a tough economy
Honoring our past
The 4-Way Test in Real Life
How have you or your company or family solved an ethical dilemma using The Four-Way Test? E-mail your story to us.
How to propose a new member
Every Rotarian has the privilege and obligation to seek qualified members. In this way, all club members can help their clubs achieve a full representation of the business and professional life of the community. Membership is the means to accomplish Rotary’s mission and goal.
Use this piece to inform prospective members about Rotary. Use the form in this link to propose a new member to our club. You owe it to our club and our community. Do it today!
Upcoming programs
Roger Guilian and Chip Drago are program co-chairmen for June.
- June 17 - America's Junior Miss, annual program.
- June 24 - Bradley Byrne, Two years at the helm of Alabama's two-year college system.
New Members Needed
New members are always needed. Everyone is encouraged to propose a new member this year. Forms are available from Melissa at Club meetings. If you are unsure about the process, talk with Melissa, President Jay Ison or board members.
If you invite a prospective member to a weekly meeting there is no guest charge.
Opportunities to Make Up a Missed Meeting
When you miss a meeting of Sunrise Rotary you are expected to “make-up” your absence by attending a meeting of another Rotary Club.
Local opportunities are:
- Mobile West – Tuesdays at noon at Heron Lakes Country Club
- Mobile Downtown – Thursday 12:15 at The Battle House Hotel
- Daphne / Spanish Fort – Monday noon at Riley Hall in Daphne
If you make-up at one of the Mobile clubs there is no cost to you.
Many of you have been making up missed meetings by attending an on-line meeting. The address that takes you right to the site is www.rotaryeclubone.org. Click on the gray panel for make-up meeting, spend 30 minutes reading articles or watching video and then fill out the form.
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