Rotary Club of Tulsa

February 8, 2012

The Crescendo Music Awards Competition was founded by the Rotary Club of Tulsa in the spring of 1999. That year eleven high school and college students auditioned for a jury of six Rotarians. Three were called back to perform for the entire club.  Modest cash prizes were awarded.

In 2010 after the 12th competition, more than 760 students had auditioned and more thatn $300,000 had been awarded as cash prizes to extremely talented young musicians.

This year we are preparing for the 14th annual competition to be held March 22-24. The competition is divided into six collegiate and high school divisions. This year's competition includes collegiate voice, strings and piano, and high school voice, orchestral instrument and piano divisions. The competition will take place over the course of three days with preliminary rounds held on March 22, 23 and 24. The Finals Concert will be held at VanTrease Performing Arts Center for Education, Tulsa Community College, Southeast campus on the evening of March 24. Tickets are on sale now at $25/seat.

February 15, 2012

Alan Armstrong became president and chief executive officer of Williams in January 2011. Previously, he served as president of Midstream and was responsible for leading Williams' midstream and olefins businesses in Canada and the United States. Additionally, Armstrong serves as chairman of the board and chief executive officer for Williams Partners L.P. (NYSE:WPZ), the master limited partnership that owns most of Williams' gas pipeline and domestic midstream assets.

Previously, Armstrong served as vice president of Gathering & Processing from 1999-2002; vice president of Commercial Development from 1998-99; vice president of Retail Energy Services from 1997-98 and director of Commercial Operations for Williams Field Services' Gulf Coast from 1995-97. He joined Williams in 1986 as an engineer.

Armstrong graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.

Armstrong serves as past president of the Gas Processors Association and is a board member of the Natural Gas Supply Association, the American Petroleum Institute and the American Exploration and Production Council. He also serves on the executive committee of America's Natural Gas Alliance and is a member of the Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. corporations. He is also a member of the Oklahoma Business Roundtable. Armstrong is chairman of the Board of Visitors for the University of Oklahoma's College of Engineering. In the community, he serves as chair of Junior Achievement of Oklahoma and is a board member of the Tulsa Metro Chamber, Tulsa's Future II Oversight Committee and The Williams Foundation. Armstrong is a past board member of Goodwill Industries.

February 22, 2012

Please join Rotarian of the Day, Kacey King, and the rest of the Above & Beyond Committee for this very special meeting to present awards to a Tulsa firefighter and a Tulsa police officer for outstanding acts of character, and commitment and compassion to both their profession and community.

The Above and Beyond Awards were established in 2008 by the Rotary Club of Tulsa. Nominated by their peers through an application process, today's recipients have gone above and beyond the requirements of duty and exemplify the values reflected in the Rotary Four-Way Test. Award nominations were approved by each department and then selected by committee of the Rotary Club of Tulsa. 

February 29, 2012

Meredith R. Siegfried was appointed chief executive officer of NORDAM in July of 2011. Prior to becoming CEO she was president and chief operating officer responsible for all repair and manufacturing operations in the United States, Europe and Asia. Earlier she was vice president of NORDAM's Repair Group, vice president of its Global Sales and Marketing and vice president of NORDAM International. She has been based in Tulsa, Okla., has spent considerable time at NORDAM's facilities in the United Kingdom and Singapore, and has played a key role in transforming NORDAM into the global aerospace entity that it is today.

Before joining the company, she was a senior consultant on mergers and acquisitions, corporate recovery services and financial advisory with Arthur Andersen's Global Corporate Finance Group.

In addition to her leadership role at NORDAM, Siegfried serves on the boards of Erickson Air-Crane Incorporated and World Travel Services, LLC. She was a member of the Board of Trustees for the Tulsa Airport Authority for eight years, five of them as chairman.

In 2011, Siegfried was nominated and chosen for the Aspen Institute's Henry Crown Fellowship program. This two-year progression engages a select group of young, executive entrepreneurs from all over the world to address the foremost challenges of their organizations, communities and countries through a structured series of seminars and an individual leadership project.

Siegfried also is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization; has been involved with Habitat for Humanity and United Way; and participated as a delegate for the Governor of Oklahoma's Delegation to China in 2004.

She holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago, and is a graduate of Notre Dame with a Business Administration degree in Finance.