Rotarian of the Week 09-22-10

Our Rotarian of the Week, John Auld, is an Angel.  He was born near Chicago and lived in Illinois, Iowa, Texas, California and Colorado growing up.  He graduated from East High School in Denver, Colorado where his high school mascot was the Angel.  This weekend his high school will celebrate its 50 high school reunion for over 1100 Angels.

Our special Rotarian's first job was babysitting and delivering papers a the age of 10 or 11.  Later, he worked at King Soopers in east Denver for 61 cents an hour.  John Auld is now retired form Rockwell Collins where he was in Contracts dealing with the Department of Defense on Avionics for both fixed and rotary wing aircraft.  He has been married to his wife Becky for 31 years and they have four kids and five grandkids.  

John enjoys hunting, fishing, camping with family, fooling around with equines, watching sports and genealogy.  His most memorable Rotary experience was when he was a visiting Rotarian at the 16 member La Veta Colorado cub.  The local Rotarians drafted the visitors into service and preparing and serving 3000 people at the town's annual 4th of July celebration.  Then with the proceeds they were again drafted to help build a big pavilion in the town park.  Those Rotarians and citizens of La Veta still make them welcome.  John's proudest accomplishment is his involvement in the communities where he has lived over the years and being in a position to give something back to the community.  John currently serves as Sergeant at Arms and has volunteered on many Club committees and projects.  In recognition for his service, one of the other Sergeants at Arms presented John with a gift certificate and an angel food cake.