Talking about 100 years of our club presidents

Eric Teehan is the Rotarian of the week!!

Ron Flournoy Bio: 

Ron was born in Mobile, Ala.  He came to Calhoun County, Tx in 1957 with his ALCOA family when his father helped build the Point Comfort Refining plant.  Ron graduated from Calhoun High School and went on to college at Lamar University in Beaumont for his BS degree in Chemical Engineering.

Ron married Pamela Bundick of Bloomington and they have two daughters, Stacey Wynn (Greg) of Port Lavaca and Melissa DeMouy (Richard) of San Antonio.  Ron/Pam have been married for 60 years.  They have 4 adult grandchildren: 3 girls and 1 boy and 1 recent great-grandson.

Ron joined Alcoa directly from college and spent the next 34 years in various operational and technical roles at locations in Arkansas (twice), Suriname, SA, Pittsburgh, Mobile, Ala, Point Comfort (twice) and Jamaica.  Ron is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Arkansas.  He retired from Alcoa in 2000 and chose to remain residing in Port Lavaca.

Both while working and retired, Ron has been active in our community.  He’s led search teams for Port Lavaca City Managers, served on the CCISD school board, been involved in local public education as a Partner in Education member, mentored several CCISD administrators, served as Chairman of the Region III Education Service Center Board, and has served on both DeTar Hospital and University of Houston Victoria advisory boards.  He is a long-time member of International Bank of Commerce Upper Gulf Coast’s advisory board of directors.  He is a deacon at First Baptist Port Lavaca.

Ron joined Port Lavaca Rotary in 1984 and served as club president in 2004-5.  He has served as club treasurer and as secretary for 10 years from 2005-15.  He was a P.E.T.S. Ranger in 2007. His first Paul Harris was awarded in 2003.

Ron’s hobbies are fishing, both local and international, genealogy, traveling, reading, and restoring old family photos.  Ron also is a retired SCUBA diver.