Audrey McKibbin Moran
is the President and Chief Executive Officer
of the Sulzbacher Center. She received her
undergraduate degree magna cum laude from
Syracuse University. Audrey is a graduate of
Duke University’s School of Law where she
served as student body president and at
graduation received the Outstanding Oral
Advocate award.
Audrey has served as Chief of Staff for
Mayor John Delaney and as Director of
Legislative Affairs for Mayor Ed Austin. She
has also served as Managing Director and
Special Counsel for the Jacksonville
Economic Development Commission. From 2004
to 2007 she was President of Moran Mediation
Group.
She began her legal career with the law firm
of Mahoney Hadlow and Adams and later joined
the State Attorney’s Office where she
started the Special Assault Unit, handling
rape, domestic violence and child abuse
cases. Audrey was the first female attorney
appointed to the position of director in the
Fourth Judicial Circuit, and she served with
distinction as the Director of the County
Court and Training Division; Director of the
Special Prosecution Division and as a member
of the Homicide Team.
In 2005, Audrey was selected to become a
trustee of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, a
$325 million charitable grant-making
organization. She currently serves as Chair
of the Board of Visitors for the Florida
Coastal School of Law and is a member of
Downtown Rotary and the Jacksonville Women’s
Network. She has previously served as
Chairman of the Nonprofit Center of
Northeast Florida, Executive Board Member of
the Schultz Center for Teaching and
Leadership and on the Board of Directors of
Baptist Medical Center. She was Chairman of
the Downtown Development Authority and an
inaugural member of the Jacksonville
Economic Development Commission.
In 2001, Audrey received the Klechak Award
for Downtown Advocacy and in 2003 she
received the Rotary Good Government Award.
She has been chosen as a Gateway Girl Scout
Council Woman of Distinction and in 1998 she
was the first woman selected to receive the
Jacksonville Bar Association’s Lawyer of the
Year award. In 2004 Audrey was honored with
Leadership Jacksonville’s Community Trustee
award.
Audrey is married to the Honorable John A.
Moran, II and they have four children.
Caitlin, a junior at Florida State
University; Jack, a freshman at Florida
State; Mary Kelley, a junior at Episcopal
High School and Michael a freshman at Bishop
Kenny.
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each week!
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The Four-Way
Test Dissected
In 1932, Herbert J. Taylor wrote
down four questions on a small white piece of
paper
to serve as an "ethical yardstick" for his
employees.
His simple creation has come to be known as The
Four-Way Test. Revered by Rotarians, it has been
translated into more than 100 languages and
recited weekly at club meetings around the
globe.
When Merv Hecht, a member of the Rotary Club of
Santa Monica, California, USA, challenged the
notions behind the test as unrealistic and
impractical in today's world, his letter in the
December 2009 issue of The Rotarian
prompted a flood of responses, many in defense
of the test.
"Is it the TRUTH? The truth is variable," Hecht
writes in his letter, reflecting on the first
tenet of the test. "It used to be the 'truth'
that the world was flat. And if you didn't
accept that truth, you were burned at the stake.
Then for many years it was taught that the world
was round. Now they say it's elliptical because
of the pull of gravity. Which is true?" He goes
on to argue that what is fair for some is seldom
fair for all, and that the final two points of
the test are "not the way the world works."
Hecht says he is surprised by the response his
letter has received. "It was a
spur-of-the-moment letter, but in thinking about
it now, I think it's a reaction to the
black-and-white attitude that is permeating our
society," he says. "Absolutism is dividing our
fellow Americans as well as our international
friends. The Four-Way Test is another of these
absolutes that fails to train people to see the
grays in social relationships. Perhaps Rotary,
one of my very favorite organizations, could be
improved with a new Four-Way Test that includes
an openness to other points of view."
Below are a few of the many
responses that have poured into The Rotarian
's mailbox.
Dale Bailey, of San Diego, California, USA,
agrees with Hecht: "You're right -- The Four-Way
Test is obsolete. We now live in a world where
absolutes only erode our freedoms. Truth is now
only that which benefits the bearer."
John Collier, president-elect of the Rotary Club
of West U (Houston), Texas, USA, writes: "If I
am committed to the truth, I do not deceive
people. I am transparent. I am committed to full
disclosure and the truth as I know it, because
deception is a practice that tries to persuade
someone to believe a lie."
Marsha Doyle, treasurer of the Rotary Club of
Lamar, Missouri, USA, responds: "The Four-Way
Test isn't supposed to be easy. I believe it is
supposed to make one think hard and search to
the heart of every matter to ensure that the one
asking is diligently seeking integrity. We try
and fail now and then, but we try. We succeed
far more often. Rotary should continue to
promote the test as a standard to which all
persons of integrity and goodwill can aspire."
George Paden, a member of the Rotary Club of
Sand Springs, Oklahoma, USA, and district Rotary
Peace Fellowships chair, says: "I respectfully
submit that 'this is not the way the world
works' is precisely the reason every member of
Rotary should totally embrace the principles set
forth in our Four-Way Test. Rotarians do not
work the way the world works. Rotarians are not
people who are motivated by what's-in-it-for-me
or what-have-you-done-for-me-lately kinds of
thinking."
Connie Cockcroft, president of the Rotary Club
of Athens, Pennsylvania, USA, writes: "The
Four-Way Test is the purest, most humble way to
gauge the ethics of our professions."
By Arnold R. Grahl
Rotary International News -- 2 March 2010
