ILEA director to speak at Rotary

Brian Wood, director of the International Law Enforcement Academy-Roswell, will speak to the Roswell Rotary Club on Oct. 19.

He currently is a supervisory special agent in the Diplomatic Security Service, joining the Department of State in 2002.

He was named director of ILEA-Roswell on May 1, 2021.

Wood formerly served as the senior regional security officer (RSO) at the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, as well as chief of the Protective Operations Division for the RSO in Baghdad; RSO in Maputo, Mozambique; team leader in the Office of Mobile Security Deployments; RSO in Conakry, Guinea; and ARSO in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Islamabad, Pakistan.

Domestically he served as a team leader with Diplomatic Security’s Mobile Security Deployment Teams and as the DSS Liaison to U.S. Special Operations Command before joining ILEA-Roswell.

A New Jersey native, Wood holds degrees from the University of Texas, Alderson-Broaddus College, and the U.S. Naval War College, where he attended as an Inter-Agency Representative.

Prior to joining the Foreign Service and continuing through January 2021, Wood served in the U.S. Army, the Army National Guard, and the U.S. Army Reserve for 37 years as an NCO and commissioned officer before retiring as a lieutenant colonel.

Brian Wood

Trash cleanup draws big group

Participants at trash pickup on Saturday.

Gordon Patton, Roswell Rotary Club Adopt-A-Highway chair, reported an excellent turnout for trash pickup on Saturday, Oct. 14.

“We gathered 29 bags of trash from 13 participants,” Gordon said. “The effort went very smoothly and we were through by 9:30.”

Trash pickup volunteers met at 8 a.m. on U.S. Highway 285 north of Roswell.

Participating were Denise Trowbridge, Jon Hitchcock, JP Cheney, Bianca Cheney, Frank Sturges, Steve Smith, Steve Henderson, Marcos Nava, Mark Reischman, Juan Rodriguez, Juan Rodriguez Jr., Robert Norris and Patton.

Corn to discuss city budget

City Councilor Robert “Bob” Corn will discuss the Roswell city budget at the Oct. 12 Rotary Club meeting.

Corn

Bob, a member of the Roswell Rotary Club, is chair of the City Council’s Finance Committee and serves on the Council’s Legal Committee.

He was elected to the City Council in March 2022.

Bob has an extensive career in public office, serving on the County Commission from 2012 through 2020, including terms as commission chairman in 2017-19.

In November 1994 he was elected Chaves County magistrate judge, retiring in December 2009.

Bob was elected to the New Mexico House of Representatives in 1980 and was re-elected in 1982, 1984, and 1986. He served as House Republican Caucus chair in 1983-84.

His private business experience includes commercial aviation, fixed-base operations, new business development, and extensive farming and ranching operations. 

Rotary cleanup on Oct. 14

The Roswell Rotary Club has scheduled cleaning up its mile along U.S. 285, starting at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 14.

Rotarian Gordon Patton, highway cleanup chair, said club volunteers will meet just before 8 a.m. for coffee and snacks at Mile Marker 116.3, about one mile north of the overpass on U.S. 285.

Gloves, trash bags, and safety vests will be provided.

Superintendent to talk at meeting

Roswell Schools Superintendent Brian Luck will discuss school bonds on Thursday at the Roswell Rotary Club meeting.

Double sapphire fellowship

Roswell Rotarian Frank Sturges received the double Paul Harris fellowship with sapphire from Carolyn Mitchell. With Frank (center) are club President Marcos Nava and Carolyn.

Students of the Month

Marcos Nava, Roswell Rotary Club president, on Thursday honored the club’s Students of the Month — Saleen Montoya of Goddard High School and Cadet Luciana Estrella Inda of New Mexico Military Institute.