Speakers Circuit
Ted Woodlock, Scout executive of the De Soto Area Council headquartered in El Dorado, will be the guest speaker when the Rotary meets at noon on Monday at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church.
Woodlock is originally from Fredonia, N.Y., where his father worked for a local Boy Scout Council. Many of his earliest memories are of Scout camp on Chautauqua Lake near Jamestown, N.Y. He then moved with his family to West Virginia and then to the Kansas City area. During this time period he became a Cub Scout and Boy Scout. He worked on the summer camp staff for six years at Camp Naish, which is a Heart of America Council camp. While in the Scouting program he achieved the rank of Life and became a Honor Vigil member of the Order of Arrow.
His experiences in Scouting led him to decide that he wanted to have a career with the Boy Scouts of America so that he could help others enjoy the experiences and opportunities that he enjoyed. His parents supported his goal as both of them had made the same decision with his father continuing his career with the Boy Scouts on the national staff and his mother having worked with the YWCA, Girl Scouts and finally serving on the national staff of Camp Fire USA.
Woodlock is a graduate of Missouri Valley College with a degree in human service agency management and began his Scouting career as district executive at the Northwest Suburban Council in Mount Prospect, Ill. He moved on to become a district executive with the Del-Mar-Va Council in Wilmington, Del. and later senior district executive with the Blackswamp Area Council, Findlay, Ohio. He returned to Scouting in the position of senior district executive and was later promoted to district director and assistant Scout executive of the Blue Mountain Council, Kennewick, Wash., and on to director of field service of Pacific Harbors Council, Tacoma, Wash. He currently serves as the scout executive of the De Soto Area Council.
Woodlock and his wife, Natasha, have two children, Edge and Maggie. He enjoys time with his family and in the out-of-doors.
Jon Robbins, a loan officer for BancorpSouth, will be the guest speaker when the Kiwanis Club meets at noon on Wednesday at First Presbyterian Church.
Originally from Heber Springs, Robbins moved to El Dorado in 1975, and graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He worked for a number of years for First Financial Bank in El Dorado before he began his career at BancorpSouth.
He has served in the past as secretary for the El Dorado Kiwanis Club, vice chair and commissioner for the City of El Dorado Historic District Commission, treasurer for El Dorado Habitat for Humanity and assistant Scout master for Boy Scout Troop 99 in El Dorado.
El Dorado Mayor Frank
Hash will be the guest speaker when the Civitan Club meets at noon on Thursday at Kozy Kitchen.
Hash is a retired U.S. Army colonel with 26 years of active duty with the United States Army Medical Department. He retired from active duty as inspector general of Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston Texas.
Hash is a native of El Dorado and graduated from El Dorado High School and Ouachita Baptist University. He has a master’s degree in administration from Webster University. He is also a graduate of the Army General Staff College and the Army War College.
(Organizations interested in listing a speaker in Speakers Circuit should send information about the speaker to editorial@eldoradonews.com. A club member should provide background information on their speakers in writing or by e-mail to the News Times. The deadline for submitting background information is 5 p.m. on Thursday for the following Sunday’s newspaper).