ART GALLAGHER
President, Charlotte Campus
JOHNSON AND WALES UNIVERSITY
By: Suzanne Fetscher

Katie Tyler introduced our speaker, Art Gallagher, President of the Charlotte Campus of Johnson and Wales University. Johnson and Wales University will combine its two campuses in Norfolk, Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina, into a single new Charlotte campus located in the Gateway Village area of downtown. The relocation of Johnson and Wales to Charlotte was acknowledged to be one of the most exciting recent developments for the city. Art stated that Charlotte leaders, with their “can do spirit,” did an amazing job of luring Johnson and Wales to the Queen City. Johnson and Wales had planned on expanding its Charleston campus, said Gallagher. But the Charlotte contingent, led by Center City Partners, asked for thirty days to convince them to invest in Charlotte instead. And they succeeded. The first students arrive in the fall of 2004.

Art told the Rotary audience to get ready for the influx of kids with green hair, cell phones, sandals, and knapsacks. Soon they will be populating the downtown. An attendance of 885 students is anticipated for the fall of 2004, with the optimum number of 2800 students reached by 2007; add to them about 250 faculty and staff.

Johnson and Wales University was founded in 1914 in Providence, Rhode Island, by two women. The Providence campus remains its main campus. When the Norfolk and Charleston campuses are combined into Charlotte’s campus, it will be one of the four campuses that include Denver, Colorado and North Miami, Florida. It is a four year accredited university.

Johnson and Wales has three colleges of study: business, hospitality (which includes hotel, sports events, and events management), and culinary. The culinary school is the largest educator of the culinary arts in the world.

Art described the curriculum at Johnson and Wales as being “upside down.” He went on to explain this by stating that students start taking courses in their major area of study the first day of school. In the culinary school, one may see students on their first day in their uniforms and in the kitchen. In hospitality, students will immediately take courses in lodging management. Art told the group that the curriculum of Johnson and Wales is “employer designed.” The University sees its customers as the industry employers and its clients as the students. The University is attempting to provide for the needs of the industry so that graduating students have the skills to serve well the industry. Johnson and Wales boasts a 98% placement success of its students within 60 days of their graduation. When the University is at full capacity in 2007, it will have an annual $60 million economic impact upon the Charlotte region.

Head Table:
Tom Robertson, Bob Alexy, Robert Freeman, Katie Tyler, Ron Kimble, Tom Burgess; Invocation: Jeannie Falknor
Visitors & Guests:
Jim Alexander; Health & Happiness: Herb Harriss; Song: David Erdman

TECHconnection

www.rotaryeclubone.org is a web site you’ll want to mark for quick access. Chartered January 2002 as Rotary’s first internet-based club, Rotary eClub One of District 5450 exists to serve Rotarians with special needs, including those who cannot maintain attendance at regular club meetings because of extensive business commitments and travel, health problems, or geographical isolation from existing clubs. The make-up component, which eClub has designated as its international service project, began in February 2002 and is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Members must read one of five informational programs linked to the site then complete the make-up form. The form asks the guest to discuss the information, including how it might relate to his/her home club’s activities, and to suggest topics for future make-up programs. Both Joe Penner and Darrel Stephens have used the site.

 

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NEW MEMBER PROFILE:

Henry B. Cantrell H. B. Cantrell & Co. Classification: Insurance, Independent 1501 E. 7th Street (28204) 704-319-9009 fax 704-227-9023 h132@aol.com Henry Cantrell is President of H. B. Cantrell & Co., a local independent insurance agency. He is from Morganton, North Carolina and graduated from East Carolina University in 1965. Henry previously worked for nine years with Unocal, and has served in the U.S. Army as a company commander in Europe during the Vietnam era. He entered the insurance industry with Travelers Insurance Company in 1974. And in 1976, Henry established his own agency, which he sold to First Union in 1985. After completing a three year non-compete contract with First Union, he re-entered the insurance business in 1988 as an Independent Insurance Agent. Henry’s son, John, joined him in 1993. And second son Wade, is a Charlotte Police officer. Henry is active at the YMCA and currently serves on their facility committee. Henry and Maude, his wife of 38 years, are members of Covenant Presbyterian Church. His recreation time is spent near Morganton where he tends 30 acres of pine trees and communes with nature. Welcome to Charlotte Rotary, Henry.

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Attendance Record   7/22/03 7/23/02 vistors & guests 15 18 club members 178 176 total attendance 193 194	Wedding Anniversaries 29 Karla & Tim Newman 01 Dorothy & Gordon Berg 02 Carolyn & Byron Bullard 03 Sarah & Richard Early   Roaming Rotarians Jim Barnhardt, Charleston, SC Phil Van Hoy, Wilmington, NC
Birthdays 29 Bill Barnhardt, Latrobe, PA 29 Roger Sarow, Wisconsin 29 Thomas Moore, Gastonia, NC 30 Steve Byrum, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 31 Fred Parker, Bowling Green, KY 01 Jon Barton, Charlotte, NC 01 Chuck Lew, Milwaukee, WI 02 Vernon Anderson, Spartanburg SC 02 Don Esposito, Greenville, SC 03 Lamar Thomas, Charlotte, NC

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