This event is named in honor of long-time Rotarian Stanley F. Caulkins --- Stanley F. Caulkins Tributes, Awards and Recognition.

Stanley was a World War ll hero, aviator, entrepreneur, community leader, mentor and Rotary Club of Leesburg patriarch who stood as an icon in various local and county endeavors. To celebrate his life and encourage the economic development that was a hallmark of his many achievements, The Rotary Club of Leesburg will award a Rotary STAR for:

The awards will be presented to this year’s winners at a ceremony during the Rotary STAR Event, sponsored by The Rotary Club of Leesburg, at the Leesburg Airport Hangar on October 13, 2018.

 

All individual tickets include a buffet dinner, wine, beer and sodas. The evening will include a silent auction, raffle and live music from the Curve Crew.

 

visit https://rotaryclubofleesburgevents.com/ for general information, sponsorship requests, award nominations and ticket purchases.

Our speaker, Larry Turner retired from the Army in 2004 and currently works in the Pentagon as a policy writer.  A goodly part of his Army career was spent training as an artillery officer, along with equal time as an Inspector General and Intelligence Officer.

He joined the Kernstown Battlefield Association in the fall of 2015, began giving guided tours of the battlefield and the Pritchard house in 2016, and was voted to join the Board of Directors in 2017.

Recognizing the importance of artillery in the Battle of First Kernstown, he started reading up on the artillery weapons employed, where one question led to another resulting in his finding out some intriguing facts about the development, manufacture, and use of artillery fuses, particularly time, percussion and concussion fuses.

 

 

Our February 22, 2018 speaker, Wolfgang W. E. Samuel was born in Germany in 1935, immigrated to the United States at age 16, and finished high school in Denver, Colorado, two years later. He graduated from the University of Colorado in 1960 and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. Wolfgang served 30 years in the U.S. Air Force, flew strategic reconnaissance against the Soviet Union in the Cold War years and combat against North Vietnam; being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross three times and numerous Air Medals. He obtained an MBA from Arizona State University and graduated from the National War College at Ft McNair, Wash DC. After retirement from the Air Force in the rank of colonel, he worked for a defense contractor in the Washington area, then retired once again to write German Boy, his first book, which was introduced by Stephen Ambrose and very favorably reviewed by the New York Times. German Boy is Wolfgang's story of survival in WWII Germany and the immediate postwar years. Other books followed.