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November 8, 2025 @ 3:45 PM, US Central Time
Guest Speaker: Deb McCaslin
Topic: Unite for Good - Guest Speaker for EFOH Satellite Club
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Deb McCaslin is the wife of a retired Air Force pilot, the mother of three, grandmother of seven, and was a doctoral candidate in music performance at the University of Arizona. She traveled extensively to a variety of overseas assignments and at each stop immersed her family in the culture of the area, studied the language, joined the local symphony and continued serving wherever and whenever needed as a volunteer.With her husband’s retirement and the re-location of the family to their Nebraska roots, she joined the Custer County Chief as a writer, then managing editor, then publisher, becoming a corporate executive and the third generation of her family to embrace journalism as an occupation. In Broken Bow she chairs the Children’s Christmas Fund which helps families in need, as a year-round source of comfort, helping with rent, groceries, utilities and transportation; led the charge as her Rotary club brought Broken Bow Team Mates to the community and continues to chair their Board of Directors.McCaslin served for 11 years on the executive committee for Custer Economic Development and later, as her retirement from the newspaper was announced, was asked to take the position as their CEO.She sat on the Nebraska Press Association Board of Directors for Advertising Services, serving as president, and followed that with a position on the National Newspaper Association Board of Directors chairing their Government Affairs Committee.Her national activities include five years’ participation in the Washington, D.C., FEMA tabletop training program at Emmetsburg, Maryland. Designed to test national emergency preparedness, these served to reinforce her belief that all response is local, no matter the challenge, no matter the situation.In her home state she chaired the statewide Industrial Council for Community Vitality through the Nebraska Blueprint program, an appointment made through the Governor’s office.But most near and dear to her heart has been and continues to be Rotary. She is quick to say this is where she found her true calling - Looking beyond America’s borders, she embraced the opportunity to be a part of Rotary’s overseas programs bringing medical services to Third World countries, and helped her own local club foster a ‘Twin Club’ relationship with the Victoria Falls Rotary Club, Zimbabwe, helping drill bore holes and build community gardens to address food sustainability and now as partners in global grant projects focused on ‘Girls Empowerment.’This led to an invitation to be one of the founding board members of Rotary International’s newest Rotary Action Groups, RAGGE: Rotary Action Group 4 Girl’s Empowerment. She was formally elected to serve as treasurer during the recent International gathering in Calgary, Canada.“If there is one thing I’ve learned, it is how small our world truly is, and how alike we all are. When I first traveled overseas, I expected differences, but what I encountered and continue to encounter are likenesses. I found that moms are moms worldwide. Families care deeply for their children and want what is the best for their kids, and for them to have the opportunity to lead happy productive lives.”She has served local Rotary Clubs three times as president, District 5630 in leadership capacities for Public Image, Membership, in 2022-2023 as governor. She now serves her District as the International Services Chair, RYLA’s Board of Directors, and districts 5610, 5630, 5680 and 5710 as an Assistant Rotary Membership Coordinator.Honors include Broken Bow High School Alumni Hall of Fame inductee; Custer Economic Development Workhorse Award recipient; Elks Citizen of the Year; Nebraska Governor’s Admiral Award; Nebraska First Lady’s Outstanding Community Service Award for Lifetime Achievement in Volunteerism; Nebraska’s AARP Senior Citizen of the Year Andrus Award, Nebraska Press Association’s prestigious Leadership Nebraska Award and was honored this past June as Rotary District 5630’s Rotarian of the Year.
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