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This Week's Program (Feb 3): Rose Hood Buss, The HUB

Topic: Who Helped You Be an Adult?

Rose Hood Buss has spent her career working and volunteering in her passion: helping youth succeed in whatever life situation they are in. Hood Buss has been able to live out her passion all of her career with direct service to youth at the Lighthouse and through training adults that work with youth with Region V Systems and the School Community Intervention & Prevention (SCIP) program. Hood Buss knows firsthand the power of having caring adults in the times that seem the hardest to get through and couldn't imagine working in any other field. Rose Hood Bush currently serves as the Executive Director of The HUB Central Access Point for Young Adults.

Rise.Shine.Give. Feb. 7 to Benefit The HUB Lincoln

The Lincoln Rotary Club 14 would like to invite you to participate in our annual Rise.Shine.Give. fundraising event on Saturday, February 7, 2026. Fifty percent of the event proceeds will go to The HUB Lincoln. The remaining proceeds will help us increase future giving capacity to benefit the numerous community service organizations who apply for funds from our Lincoln Rotary Club 14 Foundation.

Visit the RSG website at

https://one.bidpal.net/rsg2026/welcome

to learn how you can attend and participate!

If you would like to donate to the Silent Auction, you can either fill out a paper form at a meeting

OR fill out this online form:

Silent Auction Donation Form

We know you have countless choices to support the organizations doing great things in our community. Thank you for your commitment to helping The HUB Lincoln and Rotary 14!

$5,000 Grant Awarded to The Gathering Place

At the December 9 meeting, The Gathering Place was presented with a $5,000 Community Grant from the Rotary 14 Foundation. Thank you to all those who support our local foundation. Your donations are making an impact on our community!

$10,000 Grant Awarded to Asian Community & Cultural Center

At the November 18 meeting, the Asian Community & Culture Center was presented with a $10,000 Community Grant from the Rotary 14 Foundation. Thank you to all those who support our local foundation. Your donations are making an impact on our community!

2025-2026 Rotary 14 Leadership

At the July 8 meeting, Rotary 14 welcomed the 2025-2026 Rotary 14 Leadership.

Lincoln Rotary Club 14 2025 Miller Math Award

Each year since 1992, Lincoln Rotary Club 14 proudly presents the Donald W. Miller Math Recognition Award, recognizing an outstanding mathematics educator in the Lincoln area. The club established this award in honor of former member, past club president and Rotary leader Donald W. Miller.

Lincoln Rotary Club 14 recently recognized Alice Hillhouse as the 2025 Miller Math Award recipient. Alice serves as a mathematics and computer instructor at Lincoln High. In addition to serving as a classroom teacher, Alice serves as department chair and has also served Lincoln Public Schools as a staff development instructor. Some of the courses Alice teaches or has taught include differentiated precalculus, advanced algebra, geometry, and computer applications. In many of these courses, Alice has co-taught with special education professionals to support diverse learners and worked with the English Learners department to propel multilingual students to thrive in mathematics. Alice also teaches at the Bryan College of Nursing and previously at Southeast Community College as a dual credit instructor. Congratulations, Alice, on this award recognition!

Learn More About the Miller Math Award >>

Rotarians Celebrated with End of the Year Awards

Lincoln Rotary Club 14 President Erin Dobesh presented awards to Larry Keiter and Christine Weeks during the club's End of the Year Awards Celebration on June 17. Larry Keiter was recognized as the club's Rookie of the Year, and Christine Weeks was recognized as the club's Rotarian of the year. Congratulations to both!

Larry Keiter, 2025Rookie of the Year

Larry joined Lincoln Rotary Club 14 in April 2024 and has 100% attendance this year. He participated in Salute to Business and Nebraskan of the Year. He helped the Corporate Membership committee this year and is going to be playing an even bigger role in the upcoming year. Larry has a positive attitude who is willing to step up and get things done.

Christine Weeks, 2025 Rotarian of the Year
Christine joined Lincoln Rotary Club 14 in May 2020 and has 100% attendance this year. She is currently serving on the Lincoln Rotary Club 14 Board as a Director. Christine is also involved in the High School Scholarship committee, Business Networking Programs, Little Free Pantry efforts, and the Literacy Committee (Birthday Books). She has chaired/co-chaired the Nebraskan of the Year (Chair) committee and the Membership: NEOS (Chair) committee - and she has already agreed to help lead these two committees for another year! Christine's dedication, service, and unwavering commitment to our club and our community have set her apart.

Randy Hawthorne

Welcome to the Lincoln Rotary Club 14 website. Rotary is an international service organization of 1.4 million people. We are people of action. We get our name from being the 14th club formed in the world. In our 115th year, we work within Lincoln and with our neighbors around the world to create lasting change. Our local focus this year is, “You Belong Here,” inviting fresh perspectives and making sure every member feels connected and involved. To that end, I invite you to join us at a weekly meeting on Tuesdays from 12-1 p.m. at The Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel in downtown Lincoln, Nebraska. Please come hang with us to meet some of the amazing people in our Club. Feel free to explore our website to learn more about membership, our programs and what our Club does to make Lincoln and the world a better place.

Hope to see you soon!

Randy Hawthorne
Club 14 President
2025-2026

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Club President

Randy Hawthorne

Club President-elect

Mark Feit

Club President-nominee

Sheila Odom

Immediate Past Club President

Erin Dobesh

Club Executive Secretary/Director

Lauren Peters

Club Secretary

Suzanne Sughroue

Club Treasurer

Tom Klein

Club Foundation Chair - TRF

Randy Hawthorne

Club Membership Chair

Anna Hernoud

Club Polio Chair

Pat Birch

Club Program Chair

Nola Derby-Bennett

Communications Director

Kate Engel

Club Service Projects

Mitch Lee

Partner Program Chair

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Mark Stephens

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