Today, we bade farewell to Emma Gardner, our exchange student from Australia. We will miss you, Emma. We hope that you enjoyed your stay with us and bring back to Australia tons of stories and wonderful memories.
 
Today's "Get to know your Fellow Rotarian" is, Harold McAuliffe, who was born and raised in Hallstead, PA. Harold graduated from Mansfield University in PA, before heading off to the Eastman School of Music for his graduate degree. He had a 39-year career teaching music in Pittsford public schools and 22 of that as the head of the music program for all Pittsford 9 schools. Harold's mother was also a musician. His father sold insurance thru Prudential for many years. Harold married Juanita 47 years ago and has 6 grandchildren from 3 children. Harold still enjoys singing and is Pittsford Musical's musical director for many of their productions.
 
Brian Pitre, our guest speaker, prefers to call his topic "Drones" as unmanned aerial vehicles. Brian is one of the two principals of SkyOp LLC, a Canandaigua startup. The potential uses for drones could range from easier bridge inspections, no setting up and breaking down of scaffolding and ladders, to eye-catching promotions for expensive real estate for sale. Precision agriculture and ranching could also be anothr potentially lucrative commercial market, for instance, in Japan, where they use similar technology for precise pesticide application.
Thus far in the United States the use of drones has revolved around military and public safety uses. Just as the Internet was once for military use only and later commercialized and applied for public benefit, so will these highly versatile flight systems be similarly commercialized. Drones rapidly are becoming part of the American landscape.