The Rotary Club of Bend has grown its membership recently and continues to welcome community members interested in service locally and globally. Since 1947, The Rotary Club of Bend has been a leading service club in Central Oregon. New members include:
Tasha McFarland
Tasha McFarland and her husband moved to Central Oregon in 2000 to work at Hoodoo Ski Area. All 4 of their children attended Bend- La Pine Schools, and she’s been active as a classroom volunteer, served on her elementary school’s site council, attendance area review committee and the school district’s Budget Committee, which she chaired for 6 years. A graduate of the University of Oregon, she finished her MBA in 2006 with the Concordia University program in Bend. She was first introduced to the Rotary Club in high school while applying for Rotary Club scholarships and travel programs.
Tasha has also volunteered with Scouts BSA, Girl Scouts, Oregon Battle of the Books, The Bethlehem Inn and her church. She is a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) and serves on the Family Access Network Foundation Board.
Emmanuel Miller
Emmanuel Miller is a lawyer and president of the Deschutes County Bar. He and fellow Rotarian Bill Hopp have a broad civil law practice with a litigation focus at Miller & Hopp. Emmanuel moved to Central Oregon in 2003 and attended COCC, graduated from OSU-Cascades and Willamette University Law School following various jobs from construction to sales that deepen his experience as legal counsel. In his free time, he likes to snowmobile, tend to his beehives and is learning to fly. He joined Rotary for the personal relationships and community impact it provides.
Bruce McLellan
Bruce McLellan, MD, is a retired Interventional Cardiologist. He earned his BS and MD degrees from the University of California Davis. After completing his cardiology training, he and his wife Eileen moved to Bend in 1988. Prior to retiring in 2020, he practiced at the St. Charles Heart & Lung Center and he was the Medical Director for the Cardiac Cath labs at St. Charles. He has held volunteer positions with the American Heart Association, Cascade Festival of Music, AirLifeLine, Volunteers in Medicine, Deschutes County Mass Vaccination Clinic and was a guest lecturer for Bend high schools. His passions also include piloting small aircraft, bicycling, golfing and sailing.
Rick Tietz
Rick Tietz is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician for St. Charles Medical Center with over 34 years of experience. He attended college at the University of Goettingen (Germany) and medical school at USC. He is currently mentoring a teenager as a big brother, volunteers at the Volunteers In Medicine clinic, and regularly teaches medical students in emergency medicine rotations. Other interests developed in the past 9 years living in Central Oregon include downhill, backcountry and cross-country skiing, mountain biking, hiking, astronomy and languages.
If interested in learning more about the club, visit the website and join an upcoming meeting.
As a global network that strives to build a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change, Rotary values diversity and celebrates the contributions of people of all backgrounds, regardless of their age, ethnicity, race, color, abilities, religion, socioeconomic status, culture, sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
