| Meeting Date | Meeting Type/Time | Meeting Location | Speaker/Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 13th, 2026 | Lunch Meeting | InterContinental Hotel Saint Paul | Camille Davidson, Dean, Mitchell Hamline School of Law |
| January 20th, 2026 | 5:01 Meeting | Pool & Yacht Club | The Knowledge Exodus - Ben Bomar, Lithyus |
| January 27th, 2026 | Lunch Meeting | InterContinental Hotel Saint Paul | Winter Carnival Celebration |
| February 3rd, 2026 | 5:01 Meeting | Pool & Yacht Club | Stephen Fine, Early Self-Detection and Prevention of Melanoma |
| February 10th, 2026 | Lunch Meeting | InterContinental Hotel Saint Paul | Chief Axel Henry |
| February 17th, 2026 | NO MEETING | NO MEETING | Please join us instead on Friday, February 20th for a joint meeting with the Minneapolis Rotary Club. |
| February 20th, 2026 | Joint Meeting with Minneapolis | TBA | Saint Paul and Minneapolis come together for this fun annual tradition! The Minneapolis Club will be hosting us this year. |
| February 24th, 2026 | Lunch Meeting | InterContinental Hotel Saint Paul | Steve Young on Centering and the Four-Way Test |
March 3rd, 2026 | 5:01 Meeting | Pool & Yacht Club | Amanda & Doni (Almost) Farewell |
| March 10th, 2026 | Lunch Meeting | InterContinental Hotel Saint Paul | Frances Fyten & Nicole Lalum of Explore Minnesota |
| March 17th, 2026 | 5:01 Meeting | Pool & Yacht Club | Pollinator Friendly Landscapes with Dustin Vanasse |
TUESDAYS ARE FOR ST. PAUL ROTARY
JOIN US FOR LUNCH, AT 5:01 PM OR ONLINE!
Lunch Meetings: Noon at the InterContinental St. Paul Riverfront, 11 E Kellogg Blvd, St. Paul, MN 55101 (2nd, 4th and 5th Tuesdays of the month)
Parking: $3 Vouchers for 2-hour parking at the Victory Ramp near the hotel
5:01 Meetings: 5:01 PM at the Pool and Yacht Club, 1600 Lilydale Rd. Lilydale, MN 55118 (1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month). Free parking across the street, valet is free as well with suggested gratuity.
Online: all St. Paul Rotary events are hybrid with a Zoom option
We have a new mailing address! Please mail all correspondence to PO Box 4482 Saint Paul, MN 55104
Please join us at the InterContinental Hotel for lunch on January 13th as we hear from Camille Davidson, the President and Dean of Mitchell Hamline School of Law.
Camille M. Davidson is the third president and dean of Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Previously, Dean Davidson was dean and professor of law at Southern Illinois University Simmons Law School, she taught at Davidson College and Wake Forest University School of Law and was a professor and administrator at Charlotte School of Law.
She received a Bachelor of Business Administration, magna cum laude, from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, and a juris doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center in the District of Columbia. She was a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar and pursued postgraduate studies at the University of Nairobi, Kenya.
Davidson is admitted to practice law in Virginia, Washington, D.C., North Carolina, Illinois, the Western District of North Carolina, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.
She is married to Attorney Trevor Fuller, and they are parents to two young adults, Jackson and Schuyler.
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting officially begins at 12:15 PM
https://zoom.us/j/8251848268?pwd=a0thQ0NqWi93aXpyeFBGT1JRNHlTUT09
Meeting ID: 825 184 8268
Passcode: 643825
Or, join by Phone: (312) 626-6799 or (346) 248-7799
Please join us at the Pool and Yacht Club on January 20th at 5:01 pm as we hear from Ben Bomar, Founder and President of Lithyus Group.
Employee retention strategies are vital - but incomplete. Eventually, every team member logs off for the last time. Learn how to identify institutional knowledge, assess risks, and prioritize action.
Ben Bomar is an expert in celebrating and preserving institutional knowledge—the unique mix of lived experience, learned skills, and supportive networks that enable your top employees to succeed. Known for bringing visibility to challenges and offering actionable solutions, Ben empowers audiences to recognize team member knowledge as a sustainable advantage that can be retained and shared
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Meeting officially begins at 5:15 PM
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Meeting ID: 825 184 8268
Passcode: 643825
Or, join by Phone: (312) 626-6799 or (346) 248-7799
Please join us at the Intercontinental Hotel in Saint Paul on January 27th for our annual celebration of the Winter Carnival!
In 1886, St. Paul was America’s fastest growing city. To celebrate their city, leaders produced the inaugural St. Paul Winter Carnival. Throughout the history of the St. Paul Winter Carnival, it has been an integral part of St. Paul reaching out to people of greater St. Paul area to weave a tapestry of cultures and cultural programming. Saturday night January 24, a King and Queen will be selected to reign over the city for 2026. Will the king be a downtown Saint Paul Rotarian? Maybe, maybe not! But, recently, King Boreas’s were members of downtown Rotary: Bill Given in 2022 and Jason Bradshaw in 2017. Beth Naughton was Queen of the Snows in 1983. A large cadre of a Rotarians have been Winds, Prime Ministers, Guards, Vulcans and Carnival leaders including board members, committees members and volunteers. Downtown Rotary has celebrated a Salute to Winter Carnival consecutively since the end of Word War II. On January 27th, come to the noon luncheon to join the fun and see the new Royal Family.
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Meeting officially begins at 12:15 PM
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Meeting ID: 825 184 8268
Passcode: 643825
Or, join by Phone: (312) 626-6799 or (346) 248-7799
Please join us at the Pool and Yacht Club on February 3rd at 5:01 pm as we hear from Steve Fine, founder and president of the Melanoma Education Foundation.
Steve Fine attended colleges in the Boston area, receiving a doctorate in chemistry from Northeastern University. He then moved to Pennsylvania, completing a year of postdoctoral research at Lehigh University. After 5 years as Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, he moved back to New England where he served in technical and management positions in high tech chemical companies.
Shortly after his son, Dan, died of melanoma in 1998 at the age of 26, he founded the non-profit Melanoma Education Foundation and, since 2000, has devoted full time to the Foundation.
The primary activity of the Foundation has been educating high school and middle school wellness teachers about melanoma and providing them with free online lessons to educate their students about self-detecting melanoma while it is curable. Prior to the pandemic over 1700 schools in all 50 U.S. states and Canada were using the lessons, resulting in saved lives of students, teachers and their loved ones. Recently outreach was expanded to U.S. and Canadian Rotary clubs in Eastern, Atlantic, and Central time zones. Since mid-2022 over 500 virtual sessions on early self-detection and prevention of melanoma have been conducted. Steve is the public image director of the Rotary Club of Peabody, Massachusetts.
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting officially begins at 5:15 PM
https://zoom.us/j/8251848268?pwd=a0thQ0NqWi93aXpyeFBGT1JRNHlTUT09
Meeting ID: 825 184 8268
Passcode: 643825
Or, join by Phone: (312) 626-6799 or (346) 248-7799
Please join us at the InterContinental Hotel on February 10th at noon as we hear from Saint Paul Police Chief, Axel Henry.
Chief Axel C. Henry grew up in Saint Paul, Minnesota and is a proud graduate of Central High School. At the age of 16, Chief Henry started working for Saint Paul Parks and Recreation at Municipal Stadium (later called Midway Stadium). After high school, he attended the University of St. Thomas where he earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration and accounting.
Chief Henry began his law enforcement career with the Roseville Police Department in 1995 and transferred to the Saint Paul Police Department three years later. In his 24 years of service in Saint Paul, he has served as: Patrol officer; Sergeant; Commander of the Central District, Narcotics, Financial Intelligence, Human Trafficking, Family and Sexual Violence units; Executive Officer to the Chief of Police; and Senior Commander of the Eastern District.
Chief Henry spearheaded the City of Saint Paul’s bodyworn camera program, designed and led the Domestic Violence Blueprint for Safety Program, and has more than 20 years of experience as a trainer and use of force expert.
Chief Henry holds a master’s degree in educational leadership and administration from the University of St. Thomas. He is also a graduate of the FBI National Academy, the Command College at FBI Quantico and University of Virginia Master’s Program, and the Wilder Foundation’s James P. Shannon Leadership Institute.
Chief Henry is passionate about collaborating with community and city leaders to solve problems and address violent crime, empowering neighborhoods to co-produce safety, and diversifying and developing the police department at all ranks.
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting officially begins at 12:15 PM
https://zoom.us/j/8251848268?pwd=a0thQ0NqWi93aXpyeFBGT1JRNHlTUT09
Meeting ID: 825 184 8268
Passcode: 643825
Or, join by Phone: (312) 626-6799 or (346) 248-7799
Join your fellow Rotarians for a night out at the theatre! We will be seeing the play Whoosh! at the History Theatre. The performance is on February 19th at 7:30 pm.
Uncover the rich history of Minnesota through Whoosh!, a lively and deeply moving ghost tale. Solo artist Andrew Erskine Wheeler masterfully brings to life a range of characters, intertwining the rich history of St. Anthony Falls (Owámniyomni/Gakaabikaang) in the post-Civil War era with the story of his Irish heritage. This award-winning show, which debuted at the 2022 MN Fringe Festival, weaves a hauntingly local and unforgettable ghost story through compelling song and storytelling.
Register and pay HERE by February 13th to attend with the Rotary group.
We will meet at Camp Bar for appetizers and beverages starting at 5:30 pm. (Cash Bar)
490 No. Robert St. Saint Paul, MN 55101
Or meet in the History Theatre Lobby at 7:15 pm
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