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AUBURN — Past Rotary President Bethel Shields will be the guest speaker of the Lewiston-Auburn Rotary Lunch Club, sharing the history of the Winston Churchill Memorial during her presentation Thursday, Oct. 3.
Meetings are held from noon to 1 p.m. at The Village Inn, 165 High St.
Born in Maine and raised in Milwaukee, Wisc., Shields earned a registered nursing degree from Milwaukee County Hospital and her bachelor of science in business administration from the University of Maine at the age of 52 by attending numerous night classes.
Shields and her husband Thomas had five children and four grandchildren; they have been married for 62 years. Shields was an Auburn City Councilor for six years and the mayor’s representative to the Auburn School Board for four years.
She loves to read, quilt, watch sports, and work on the New York Times crossword puzzles. She also was instrumental in the development of the Balloon Festival and L/A Senior College. Her current project is making 20 quilts for the Veteran’s Homeless Shelter in Lewiston.
Amos S. Eno, president and founder of Land Conservation Assistance Network, will be the guest speaker Thursday, Oct 10; Eno has been changing the environmental policy and philosophical landscape for 45 years, challenging government, the corporate world and environmental leaders to think differently about environmental policy, conservation vs. preservation, development and land use. Simultaneous with founding LandCAN in 2000, Eno served as executive director of the New England Forestry Foundation, where he engineered the two largest privately held land conservation easements in the United States totaling 1.1 million acres — the Pingree Project and the Downeast Project.
For 10 years, he was executive director of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, re-organizing NFWF into a regionally managed organization to improve services. He has been director of wildlife programs at the National Audubon Society and editor of the Audubon Wildlife Reports.
Eno has served as special assistant in the Office of Endangered Species at the Department of the Interior. He served as assistant to Nathaniel P. Reed, assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks, from 1974-1976, working on Alaska lands, endangered species and national wildlife refuges.
Founder of the Resources First Group, a consulting company, Eno’s past clients include Secretary of the Department of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Resources Legacy Fund, Nature Conservancy, New England Forestry Foundation and the Louisiana Secretary of Natural Resources.
Guests and visiting Rotarians are always welcome at the Thursday meetings; lunch is available for $14. For more information, visit www.lewistonauburnrotary.org or contact Monica Millhime 207-713.7045, millhime@myfairpoint.net or Club President Celeste Yakawonis, 207-713-7111.
