[D9640general] [eFlash_Rotary] Digest Number 821

[Garry Krischock]

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1.  1553: <>  Major Donor seeks no special recognition From: Sunil K
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2. 1554: <>  Ray Klinginsmith _ A Profile From: Sunil K Zachariah 

 

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zEEc2VjA2Rtc2cEc2xrA3Ztc2cEc3RpbWUDMTIxODc4OTE1OQ--> 1553: Major Donor seeks
no special recognition 

 

Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:51 pm (PDT) 

Major Donor seeks no special recognition
By Nancy Shepherdson 

Richard Barton stands at the street intersection, waving his sign and 
shouting encouragement for runners helping to raise funds for a 
cancer care center. 

Hours later, he's still there, cheering on the walkers, some of whom 
are cancer patients. He's been up since dawn on this October 
morning. 

Barton's framed portrait hangs in the Hall of Honor on the 17th floor 
of Rotary International's World Headquarters, among the other US$1 
million donors. His was the 28th such gift in Rotary's history. 

But if Barton, a member of the Rotary Club of Hinsdale, Illinois, 
USA, had his way, no one would ever hear about his donation. Friends 
say he quietly volunteers for nearly every Rotary project that comes 
along and never seeks special recognition. 

Rich was eager to get involved from the moment he first joined, says 
Rotarian Charlie Hartley. "Every time we had something going on, he 
volunteered to help. Rich is always saying, 'What can I do now?'" 

Working-class upbringing 
Barton never expected to be in a position to give a million dollars 
to anyone. He grew up in a working-class neighborhood, where his 
father was a sheet-metal worker, and was the first in his family to 
attend college. 

With a civil engineering degree from the University of Illinois in 
1964, he found a job building missile silos for American Bridge, a 
division of U.S. Steel. He wasn't thrilled at the prospect of moving 
from Chicago to North Dakota, where the company was based. He was 
excited, though, at the idea of being a field commander responsible 
for making sure the doors on 150 silos were properly installed and 
balanced so finely you could push them into place with a finger. 

That job led to promotions that put Barton's stamp on some of the 
most recognizable buildings in the world. In Chicago, he was the 
construction engineer for the John Hancock Center, the Gateway 
Center, and the First National Bank Building (now called Chase 
Tower). He also worked on the World Trade Center in New York and the 
world's first welded-steel tower, the General Motors building. Later, 
he spent many years building roads and bridges, including many of 
those spanning U.S. Interstate 55, a highway that leads out of 
Chicago. 

Now 65, Barton is the owner of RB Properties in Burr Ridge, Illinois, 
a property management and acquisition firm. Much of his real estate 
sites are "unloved" older buildings that "just need a little care and 
attention to be profitable," Barton says. 

Barton's million-dollar gift was intended to benefit both Jane 
Hopson, his partner, and Rotary - "the two most important things in 
my life." And he wanted it to be as simple as possible. His attorney 
recommended that he set up a charitable remainder trust, providing 
tax benefits to the couple now, but also to their estate after they 
are gone. 

Source: Rotary International News
Courtesy: eFlash_Rotary

 

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<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eFlash_Rotary/message/1472;_ylc=X3oDMTJxaDF0Z
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zIEc2VjA2Rtc2cEc2xrA3Ztc2cEc3RpbWUDMTIxODc4OTE1OQ--> 1554: Ray Klinginsmith
_ A Profile 

 

Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:36 pm (PDT) 

Ray Klinginsmith _ A Profile

eFlash has received innumerable requests for a profile of 
Ray Klinginsmith who has been chosen by the Nominating Committee 
to be the President of Rotary International in 2010-11. Here
is a brief profile of this exceptional Rotary leader:

Ray Klinginsmith is an attorney in Kirksville,
Missouri, USA, who now works primarily in the
areas of commercial and corporate law, real estate,
and estate planning. He retired in August of 1995 as
General Counsel and Professor of Business
Administration for Truman State University
(formerly Northeast Missouri State University) in
Kirksville after 22 years of service. During his
tenure at the University, he also served as Dean of
Administration for a period of five years during the
University's transition to a liberal arts and sciences
institution. Since his retirement from the University,
he served a four-year term as a county commissioner
for Adair County from 2001 thru 2004.

Ray's wife, Judie, is a former elementary school
teacher in Macon and Kirksville and a former
consultant for the Child Development Assistant
program at the Kirksville Area Vocational Center.
Ray and Judie have two children, Leigh and Kurt,
and three grandchildren, Morgan, Grant, and Sydney
Perkins.

Ray is a graduate of the business school and the law
school of the University of Missouri at Columbia.
He is a member of The Missouri Bar and has
practiced law since 1965. He was awarded the
Thomas D. Cochran Community Service Award by
the Young Lawyers Section of The Missouri Bar in
1983.

Ray has served as a director of the Macon Atlanta
State Bank in Macon, Missouri, since 1971, and he
was one of the initial trustees for the Missouri

Family Trust, which was created by the Missouri
legislature in 1989. He has been the president of
Chariton Valley Association for Handicapped
Citizens since its organization in 1982, and he was
accorded the 1988 Parent/Caretaker Award by the
Missouri Planning Council for Developmental
Disabilities. He is a former member of the Executive
Board for the Great Rivers Council of the Boy
Scouts of America and the holder of its Silver
Beaver Award for adult volunteers. He is a member
of the First United Methodist Church in Kirksville
and a former lay speaker for the church.

A Rotarian for more than 40 years, Ray is currently a
member of the Kirksville Rotary Club. He studied at
the University of Cape Town as a Rotary Foundation
ambassadorial scholar in 1961, and when he was
elected to the board of directors for Rotary
International in 1984, he became the first recipient of
a Rotary Foundation award to serve on the RI board.


He served as a Trustee of The Rotary Foundation
from 2002 to 2006 and as vice chairman of the
Trustees in 2005-06, and he has been awarded both
the Citation for Meritorious Service and the
Distinguished Service Award by the Foundation.



In other Rotary assignments, Ray served as
moderator of the 1989 International Assembly in
Phoenix, chairman of the 1998 Council on
Legislation in New Delhi, vice chairman of the
2005 Chicago Convention Committee and chairman of the 
Los Angles Convention Committee. He has served
in a variety of assignments for the codification of RI
policies and the simplification of RI bylaws and
similar documents. He is currently serving as a
member of the Future Vision Committee for The
Rotary Foundation, chairman of the TRF Alumni
Advisory Committee, and chairman of the 2008 RI
Convention Committee for the convention that will
be held in Los Angeles on 15-18 June 2008.

Source: The Pepper Box(29 Nov 2007), Rotary Club of St Louis
Courtesy: eFlash_Rotary

 

 

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