April 4, 2009 (Greenville, SC). District 7750 hosted a very successful institute on April 4, 2009 in Greenville SC. Strayer University provided an excellent venue for sharing Rotary and learning valuable leadership skills. District 7750 RLI Chair Buddy Smith served as Facilities Coordinator and Bert Strange was the Program Coordinator.

34 Rotarians participated in the Institute and six of those, received their graduate pins from the RLI faculty. As pictured below, they are John Thornton, 7750; Jon Whitehead, 7750; Jan Cox, 7750; Ken Dresser, 7680; Ben Goldstein, 7680; and Ed Irick, 7750. 

In addition to the Coordinators noted above, the faculty included RLI veteran faculty members PDG Ed Hamilton, PDG Bruce Baker, PDG Jim Stump, PDG Barbara Shayeb-Helou, and PDG Rich Waugh

Buddy Smith, D 7750 Chair, Checking the Paperwork

Cooperation Is The Key In RLI

Part 2 Students Hanging On PDG Rich Waugh's Every Word

PDG Bruce Baker, D 7750 Chair Buddy Smith, and PDG Ed Hamilton Solving All RLI Problems