Leadership Monroe County Alumni
Events
Alumni Socials are scheduled throughout the year. Please click on the Calendar link to see all upcoming events.
June 27 Recruitment Social in Key West
brought out many alumni and people
interested in learning more about Class XVII
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Summary of Class XVI Leadership Monroe County
Class XVI of Leadership Monroe County — whose motto is "License to Lead" — was indeed a memorable one. Quick to bond as a group — and what better way to bond than a roadside pit stop sans restroom in the Everglades after dark — this class was particularly inquisitive when it came to questioning session speakers and panelists.
The class benefited from having our state representative and school superintendent as members, both founts of knowledge. Throw in a hospital administrator, a community activist on sewer issues, an advertising executive promoting the Florida Keys, two prosecutors, and representatives from a number of nonprofits, financial institutions, utilities, and the medical and legal communities and you have a well—rounded group of Keys' activists.
Following the tradition of each class selecting a specific project of their own outside the LMC curriculum, Class XVI has chosen to assist locally in the Masonic child identification program (CHIP) by helping to identify and recover missing children. CHIP programs allow parents the opportunity to create a kit of identifying materials for their child, free of charge. The kit contains a fingerprint card, a physical description, a video, computer disk, or DVD of the child, a dental imprint, and a DNA sample.
As recruitment begins for a new class, it will be difficult to match the enthusiasm and talents of this bunch that have a "License to Lead."
Henry Woods
Alumni Achievement
I would like to take this moment to thank everyone for your support and encouragement while I was attending Leadership Florida. Leadership Florida turned out to be the experience of a lifetime. I met so many wonderful people and learned so much about our great state. One thing I learned was that we are not the only ones that are having workforce issues. How would you like to be a cattleman, trying to hire an experienced cattle person? Requirements for the job: you must have at least three years experience working around cattle, you must have your own cattle dogs, (three to four), along with three cattle horses and of course you must have a pickup truck with a horse trailer. So as you can see, we don't have it so bad!
Leadership Florida is made up of five sessions that are spread out over 10 months. Each session is held in a different city and the class learns about the issues and problems that they face and how they plan to solve them. Some of the issues facing cities throughout our state are water shortages and the need to improve infrastructure. Freshwater is the major crisis; the fear of coastal cities is salt-water intrusion into freshwater wells. The League of Cities, and leaders from all across the State are working together to come up with solutions to these pressing issues.
I encourage each and every one of you, if you have an opportunity to attend Leadership Florida, to do so. Every session left me with the desire for more information about our great State. Leadership Florida challenges you to go back into your community and do more. I again want to thank all of you and I look forward to seeing all of you this year at one of our recruiting socials.
Leadership Monroe County
P.O. Box 1364
Key West, FL 33041
Phone (305) 289-9400
Fax (305) 295-0433
www.leadershipmonroecounty.org
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