Home Town: Great Bend, KS
Current Home: Leawood, KS
Occupation: Veterinarian, Retired
What I like most about what I do: I liked working with animals, medicine, and people. I liked the challenge of solving the pet’s mystery disease.
Joined Rotary: May 1978
Sponsor: Rex Danfort
Family: Wife, Brenda, retired English teacher. Daughter, Jodie Guest, Professor of Epidemiology at Emory. Son, Brian, COO of national heating and air conditioning corp. Four grandchildren.
Favorite Family Time: Sitting on the deck watching the sun set
Personal Achievements: KSU Vet Med Distinguished Alumnus. Retired Army Colonel
Hobbies: Reading, travel
Interests: Birdwatching
Past Experience: 12 trips to Iditarod as trail Veterinarian. Retired Army Colonel
What ‘Service Above Self’ means to me: Going the extra mile to help
Why I recommend joining Overland Park Rotary: Great group who exemplify “Service Above Self” and good programs.
My Rotary Moment: Being able to walk into a room of people you have never met in a foreign country and being treated as a VIP.
VERN OTTE
The Overland Park Rotary Foundation is pleased to announce the second year of the Senator Richard Bond Memorial Scholarship program. Through these scholarships, it our goal to celebrate young people who have a passion for service and who plan to pursue or are pursuing higher education. This also helps introduce high schoolers to Rotary through their high school Interact program with a strong focus on community service. 
The Overland Park Rotary Foundation on behalf of the Overland Park Rotary Club plans to award three $5000 grants to community organizations or agencies in the Kansas City metro that provide human services/human need to members of our communities. 
