 The Program Our speaker was Jeffrey Olenick, an assistant professor at ODU in Organizational Psychology and Computational Social Sciences. Dr. Olenick focuses his studies on how psychology applies to work situations. From the study, Dr. Olenick hopes to glean how organizational issues can lead to potential solutions, especially for emerging issues through computational analysis. He pointed to the use of computers in projecting things such as flooding. Computation modeling is new to organizational behavior. He is currently working on a model to study segregation issues and how it leads to different participation rates. He believes that we are often blind to our biases which, while they might be slight, can lead to significant issues. He also studies wealth across classes, team conflict, the formation of subgroups during periods of isolation (such as the pandemic), and how learning processes apply to training. The Meeting Visitation: Rotarians learned of the sad news of the passing of Irv Wells who was a part of our club for 32 years. Retired from the FBI, Irv had his own investigation agency. He also published a novel, Women in Summer. Dalton Dunbar is making progress after suffering a stroke a couple of weeks ago. He remains at Norfolk General Hospital, room 913, and would enjoy visitors or phone calls. Face masks are required if you plan to visit. Visitors: - Rotarian Mo Ahumada, a member of the Garner Midday Club, has purchased a business in the Pembroke section of Virginia Beach. He expects to split his time between Garner, a Raleigh, N.C. suburb, and Hampton Roads. The Garner club is small (about 20 people) but has a fundraiser from which they have provided backpacks for feeding 133 middle school children and also to help the mentally disabled.
- Lise Desplaines, President Michael’s mother was in attendance.
- Michelle Nettles introduced her summer intern, Caroline Cashion.
Happy Bucks: - Ben Mason has returned from a trip to Exuma.
- Bill Lehew is celebrating the birth of his seventh great-grandchild, a girl. A granddaughter is graduating from Norfolk Collegiate and will be attending the University of Kentucky.
- John Searing, who has been missing in action, is glad to be back at a meeting.
- Bob Ash’s grandson is graduating from Wyoming High School in Ohio and will attend William & Mary in the fall.
- Jeff Wells has outed Sally Hartman who appeared on the Today show.
John Cameron won the daily raffle but failed to draw the Queen of Spades. $401 remains in the Big Pot. |
