At the Jan. 24 Rotary Club of Kirksville meeting, Marie Murphree provided an update on the Kirksville Area Chamber of Commerce, an organization in which she has served as executive director for the past nine months. She is pictured with Rotary club President Melissa Stuart (right).
The speaker at the Jan. 17 Rotary Club of Kirksville meeting was Diane Richmond, Director of Learning Technologies & Instructional Design at Truman State University. She spoke about Artificial Intelligence (AI) which can be both good and bad. In healthcare, it can aid in diagnosis and provide assistance in surgery. It can help detect fraud in finance and provide better recommendations in a retail setting. In entertainment, it can be dangerous and result in jobs being lost, replacing artists. AI can provide false information and misrepresentations. It can be particularly troublesome in education. In order to catch cheats, Richmond recommends that educators have students write something during class. Students need to add citations which AI won’t produce. The speaker is pictured with Past President Marie Murphree (right) who conducted the meeting.
At the Jan. 10 Rotary Club of Kirksville meeting, fellow member Ramey Weichelt (right) led the club in producing braided dog toys as a community service project for the Adair County Humane Society (ACHS). Weichelt is pictured with fellow Rotarian Salvation Army Lt. Chris Clarke, who provided the tee shirts used in the project. Weichelt gave a short history of the ACHS, the recipient of the two dozen dog toys made today. ACHS started as a service project conducted by Girl Scout Cadette Troop 166 of Kirksville in 1971. ACHS was incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1972.
At the Jan. 3 Rotary Club of Kirksville meeting, newer members Jennifer Chrisman (left) and Mason Garbs (right) spoke about themselves and their backgrounds. Chrisman, marketing and sales manager at Northeast Missouri Rural Telephone Company, lives on a farm she calls “The Big Hill” west of Novinger. Garbs, born and raised in O’Fallon, is an optometrist at Premier Eyecare Associates in Kirksville. They are pictured with club President Melissa Stuart.