Hello Rotarians!
The host this week will be Mark Shepard, and your speaker will be Brad Dahl, FPS Exec Director of Business Affairs.
Rotary Member Spotlight
Tim Bryson has always been adventurous. And now, every day he goes to work it’s considered an adventure.
What started as a friendly favor has transformed Bryson’s Airboat Tours into a booming business. In 2004, Bryson took a cancer patient and her friend for a ride on the Platte River on his personal airboat. Those passengers told their friends, families and doctors, and soon his phones were ringing with requests for rides. It seemed the airboat rides lifted spirits and provided a serene experience for those who needed it most. And that is where the idea of creating a career out of a hobby began.
However Bryson is also a Manufacture Representative for a Infra-red sauna company called Health Mate Saunas and has been with this company for 22 years.
On his days off, you can find Bryson doing anything that allows him to be active and outdoors.
Steve Tellatin was raised in Des, Moines, Iowa. After high school he enlisted in the Iowa Air National Guard and spent three years as a full time member of the Guard. He attended college at Northwest Missouri State and met and married his wife Barb, during that time. They moved to Fremont where Steve accepted a position with the Fremont Police Department and Barb accepted a position at Fremont Public Schools as an art instructor at the Junior High. They both stayed and retired from their respective jobs.
His police career in Fremont included positions as patrol officer, detective, detective sergeant and deputy chief. Steve graduated from the FBI National Academy in 1981. Besides being in the USAF reserves, he also served in the US Army Reserves for 28 years retiring at the rank of lieutenant colonel (promotable). His USAR career included several trips to Korea, Germany, and Belgium. In 2003 he was mobilized for Operation Iraqi Freedom and spent 10 months in Kuwait with operations to Iraq, Bahrain, and Qater.
Currently, he is the Military Outreach Director for Nebraska Committee of the Department of Defense Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve. He is also an adjunct criminal justice instructor at Metropolitan Community College and on the Fremont Civil Service Commission.
Their daughter Heather Gossett is married to F.A. (Chip) Gossett, IV and they have two children, Avery and F.A. (Quinn). Heather is employed with NRG Media in Omaha, and Chip is an independent construction contractor.
Steve’s hobbies are golf, Rotary, shooting, and Husker football.
Barry A. Benson