Yvonne Ervin, founder and executive director of the HSL Properties Tucson Jazz Festival, will explain how and why the festival was started four years ago, and outline the economic impact, demographics and financing of the 11-day event. She’ll also present some musical highlights of the January 2018 festival which will feature Arturo Sandoval and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Sheila E., Diane Schuur, Spyro Gyra, The Mingus Dynasty, the Tucson Jazz Institute Ellington Band and many others. She will also talk about some of her other jazz projects including The Mingus Project and the Tucson Jazz Institute.
Biography - Yvonne Ervin
Yvonne Ervin is a professional fundraiser, non-profit manager, journalist and concert producer. She is the founding executive director of the HSL Properties Tucson Jazz Festival which she started in January 2015. From 1989 to 1998 she was the founding executive director of the Tucson Jazz Society, building it from 500 members to become the largest jazz society in the country with 2,100 members and 42 concert productions a year. Before the jazz society, she was marketing director for the Tucson Symphony Orchestra for five years.
For 17 years, Yvonne organized the Primavera Jazz Fest, the world's longest-running women's jazz festival. She produced the Jazz on the Border: The Mingus Project, a weeklong festival in Nogales Arizona and Sonora in 1993 and she is chair of the board of The Mingus Project in Nogales Arizona, where she finally realized her goal of building a memorial park for Charles Mingus. She stage managed at NYC’s famed Apollo Theater and produced the memorials for jazz greats Abbey Lincoln and Hank Jones at the legendary Abyssinian Baptist Church.
Yvonne represented the jazz industry on the board of the International Association of Jazz Educators for four years and since 1994 she has been the executive director of the Western Jazz Presenters Network, a coalition of 45 jazz festivals and venues in the West. The Mid-Atlantic Arts Alliance and The Kennedy Center hired her to write a curriculum to train new jazz presenters for a National Endowment for the Arts-funded program.
Since her early 20s Yvonne has worked as a jazz journalist for print and radio, interviewing more than 150 jazz legends. Thirty of those interviews are archived at the Library of Congress. She is editor of Hot House magazine in NYC and was the jazz columnist for the Tucson Weekly for several years. In 2015 she was inducted into the Tucson Musicians Museum. During her 12 years in New York City, she held top development and executive positions at non-profits and raised more than $10 million dollars. She moved back to Tucson in January 2011 and was development director of the University of Arizona’s Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry before leaving to start the jazz festival.
KATHY KITAGAWA gave a very moving inspiration about what it means to be open and experience reconciliation in honor of Pearl Harbor Day.
PRESIDENT CLIFF sadly acknowledged the passing of the Territorial Cup to ASU, agreeing to wear an ASU shirt provided gleefully by member TED KIRACOFE. (Where’s the black arm band?)
SCOTT VAUGHAN led us in the pledge and song “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” (or “America”) accompanied skillfully by GARY HIRSCH on the piano. JULIE PAULSON introduced our visitors and guests.
We had four birthdays: Slightly delayed, BOBBY LARSON lost his minute to PAT DAVITT and his cake to ROGER HARWELL, but was graceful with a brief birthday acknowledgment. PAT DAVITT made us all jealous by having the best job ever organizing tours to Italy with “breakfast wine” (is that real?). STEVE PICKERING thanked his sponsor HUGH THOMPSON, comparing him to a “heat seeking missile” when recruiting new members, and GARY SCHEER noted that Rotary gets better the longer you stay and then promptly rescinded his birthday donation until PRESIDENT CLIFF took off the ASU shirt.
PRESIDENT CLIFF recognized a startling 52 years of 100% Attendance by TOM BROWNING. TOM is a member since 1965 and has the strongest handshake of any current club member.
We also introduced two new members: TOM STRASBURG introduced JOHN STROBECK with stories of his days working for IBM and testifying in a case against the Las Vegas Mob. JOHN counted among his several blessings being blessed to be a member of this Rotary Club. GARY GETHMANN introduced architect and builder JOHN HEIMBAUGH who among other awards received a prestigious American Academy in Rome fellowship. JOHN’s favorite outdoor activity is ironically sailing, and he is searching for help in how to pursue that activity in the desert.
SERGEANT AT ARMS DALE BERG called on Past President ELLIE PATTERSON who had a Happy Jackson to recognize member DAWNE BELL for her selection as one of the “Forty under 40”. We had several donated items for auction including Glass blown ornaments from the Sonoran Glass School. For other announcements:
MIKE ORCUTT made a Blue Badge Presentation for GEORGE ROCHELEAU, and noted George’s work managing shuttles for the car show and holiday bell ringing.
DIANA CANNON reminded us all to sign up on Clubrunner for Holiday Mixer (12/20 at La Mariposa Resort).
CHUCK SAWYER invited everyone to participate in Tree Planting on 12/9.
PAST PRESIDENT ELLIE PATTERSON encouraged everyone to attend Roadrunner Hockey Game on January 5th.
ROBERT O’BRIEN announced that the Arizona Bowl will donate 100% of tickets bought using the RCOT code will be added to the Car Show proceeds.
PAST PRESIDENT ROGER HARWELL asked for additional volunteers for the 4th Avenue Car Show Ticket Sales and Suds for Scholars effort.
For our program, PAST PRESIDENT ROGER HARWELL introduced Michael Darter who is an Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois and an expert in highway and airport infrastructure. Mr. Darter told the fascinating and moving story of searching for the brother he lost on December 16, 1943. Eugene Darter was a volunteer radio communications officer who participated in a dangerous bombing mission to destroy a Nazi submarine facility. During the raid, Eugene’s plane was hit, eventually crashing off the coast of Texel Island in the Netherlands. Through the years, Mr. Darter has been able to establish contact with several of the crew members of his brother’s B17, and eventually to meet a Dutch farmer who witnessed his brother landing in the ocean. The search has become the basis of a book titled “Gone with the Wind’ He Said”. Mr. Darter signed a book for the lending library titled “Best Frints in the Whole Universe”.
PRESIDENT CLIFF finished with a very appropriate toast, wishing that for all those missing, may we find them and bring them home.
Do you know that 400 million people in the world do not have access to basic health care or cannot afford what is available? Millions of people suffer the results of disease: poverty, misery, pain and even death. Rotary performs a leading role in preventing and fighting disease across the world. Grants totaling $65 million have been given by the Rotary Foundation to fight disease. The results are amazing: health clinics for women, babies and youth; pre-natal care that has dramatically increased birth and baby survival rates, reduction of HIV infections by up to 95 percent in some countries; a reduction in polio cases by 99.9 percent since our programs began in 1985, and the list goes on.
None of this would be possible without the support of YOU, our Rotarian donors to The Rotary Foundation. TRF is the backbone of the work of our Rotary Clubs. It transforms your gifts – your donations – into service projects that Change Lives – that save lives – both close to home and around the world.
We have a formidable task facing us as Rotary fights disease and brings basic health care to new areas of our world. December is Rotary Disease Prevention and Treatment Month. Please do what you can to support the work of The Rotary Foundation as we begin this month of peace, joy, love and caring. Give a check to your local Rotary Club Foundation Chair or use this link to donate on line via credit card or check: https://my.rotary.org/en/ document/contribution-form- rotary-foundation.
Hello fellow Rotarians. A wonderful night is being planned for our Annual Holiday Mixer, Wednesday, December 20th, 5:30 – 9:00 p.m. at La Mariposa. The resort is located at 1501 N. Houghton Road, Tucson, AZ, between Tanque Verde Rd. and Speedway Blvd. All members and guests must register for this event. Please go to www.tucsonrotary.org scroll down the left side to "Upcoming Events" and click on "Holiday Mixer". Guest fee is $30 and will be billed to your account.
The Rotary Club of Tucson’s participation in the Salvation Army Bell Ringing raised over $5000 this year. We had 75 Rotarians, spouses, Rotary scholars and other volunteers who gave two or more hours of their Saturday to help make this happen. We had Santas, reindeer, bells and a lot of holiday cheer on clear display at 10 locations throughout Tucson. Thanks to everyone who helped and, in particular, thanks to Jerry Sullivan for taking two shifts at two different locations, and to Pat Zumbusch for going to three different locations just to help out. They truly embody the Rotary spirit. Cheers to everyone who gave $100 to sponsor a kettle and to all who gave up part of their Saturday to help out those in our community who are less fortunate!
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The Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI) is a training program established to improve the Rotary knowledge and leadership skills of the future leaders of Rotary Clubs. RLI is a great place to start for a new Rotarian looking to find their niche in the world of Rotary. The exchange of ideas with other experienced Rotarians alone makes the courses worthwhile.
The Rotary Leadership Institute training program consists of three full-day sessions, followed by graduate seminars. Our next District 5500 program will be Saturday, January 20, 2018 at the Viscount Suites in Tucson.
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Yvonne Ervin, founder and executive director of the HSL Properties Tucson Jazz Festival, will explain how and why the festival was started four years ago, and outline the economic impact, demographics and financing of the 11-day event. She’ll also present some musical highlights of the January 2018 festival which will feature Arturo Sandoval and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Sheila E., Diane Schuur, Spyro Gyra, The Mingus Dynasty, the Tucson Jazz Institute Ellington Band and many others. She will also talk about some of her other jazz projects including The Mingus Project and the Tucson Jazz Institute.
We also introduced two new members: TOM STRASBURG introduced JOHN STROBECK with stories of his days working for IBM and testifying in a case against the Las Vegas Mob. JOHN counted among his several blessings being blessed to be a
member of this Rotary Club. GARY GETHMANN introduced architect and builder JOHN HEIMBAUGH who among other awards received a prestigious American Academy in Rome fellowship. JOHN’s favorite outdoor activity is ironically sailing, and he is searching for help in how to pursue that activity in the desert.
SERGEANT AT ARMS DALE BERG called on Past President ELLIE PATTERSON who had a Happy Jackson to recognize member DAWNE BELL for her selection as one of the “Forty under 40”. We had several donated items for auction including Glass blown ornaments from the Sonoran Glass School. For other announcements:
Do you know that 400 million people in the world do not have access to basic health care or cannot afford what is available? Millions of people suffer the results of disease: poverty, misery, pain and even death. Rotary performs a leading role in preventing and fighting disease across the world. Grants totaling $65 million have been given by the Rotary Foundation to fight disease. The results are amazing: health clinics for women, babies and youth; pre-natal care that has dramatically increased birth and baby survival rates, reduction of HIV infections by up to 95 percent in some countries; a reduction in polio cases by 99.9 percent since our programs began in 1985, and the list goes on.
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Hello fellow Rotarians. A wonderful night is being planned for our Annual Holiday Mixer, Wednesday, December 20th, 5:30 – 9:00 p.m. at La Mariposa. The resort is located at 1501 N. Houghton Road, Tucson, AZ, between Tanque Verde Rd. and Speedway Blvd. All members and guests must register for this event. Please go to 
The Rotary Club of Tucson’s participation in the Salvation Army Bell Ringing raised over $5000 this year. We had 75 Rotarians, spouses, Rotary scholars and other volunteers who gave two or more hours of their Saturday to help make this happen. We had Santas, reindeer, bells and a lot of holiday cheer on clear display at 10 locations throughout Tucson. Thanks to everyone who helped and, in particular, thanks to Jerry Sullivan for taking two shifts at two different locations, and to Pat Zumbusch for going to three different locations just to help out. They truly embody the Rotary spirit. Cheers to everyone who gave $100 to sponsor a kettle and to all who gave up part of their Saturday to help out those in our community who are less fortunate!
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