Brady Kress, seen in picture below, had a lot to say and show about the historical Dayton park's future improvements

Adam said the group of Rotarians arrived at 10 a.m., and were doing well for the first five wheelbarrows of mulch, but after that the group began to really feel the work. At his Carrabbas Restaurant he pays to have the outside work done, he said. He said he needs to workout a bit harder before he tries this work again, as he ran out of gas. Still, it was a good way to get acquainted with the other members of the club, he said. He mentioned Jack, Bob, Greg, Phil.... Giving back to the community with volunteer work has its own rewards, he said. 

 

 

Ron also showed a picture on the big screen of our exchange student Saloni at RYLA with friends.

 

Ron said he got a letter from the CEO of Homefull thanking us for our generous donation of more than a thousand dollars to help their cause in trying to end homelessness. He said the support was critical and that they appreciate our commitment to the community.

 

Ron mentioned that Hannah's Treasure Chest has an upcoming golf tournament fund-raiser set for June 9 at the Heatherwoode Golf Club. It is the Chip In for Children Golf Scramble. Play is $100 per golfer.

 

 

  Erich had Boyd introduce his wife Deborah, and in doing so Boyd said he brought her along because she always accuses him of going to a bar instead of Rotary. And of course there was laughter from the group, and many saying this was the first time they had seen Boyd in a long time. And, "Who's Boyd?"

 Erich recognized those sitting at the birthday table, Dale Berry, Lee Hieronymus, Mark
Febus, and Arnie  Biondo, who were all committed to giving $5 for their birthdays. 

Bob Fry gave noting that he was happy to be here with the Birthday boys, and Dave Trout gave, saying he was glad to be back in town. Deb Dulaney gave and Joyce Young gave, noting she had information on the upcoming Road and Bridge levy Tuesday for those in Washington Twp. It is a 1.85-mill, 5-year renewal levy, Issue 17 on the May 2 ballot. The levy funds road and bridge services in the unincorporated area of the township. The levy would cost $113.01 for a home valued at $200,000.

 Brian Bergmann gave for the birthday boys and for getting to greet and meet people at the door. Irene Ullmer gave several Happy Bucks for being Happy, and Carol gave for the beautiful weather to be outdoors, nature lover that she is. Chuck King also gave for the sunny, warm day and Mike Weir gave several Happy Bucks for Harvey mentioning the flowers and not mentioning the tree pollen we have because of the early warm weather. 

 Dan Sortman gave $5 for missing some meetings and being Happy to be back. 

 John Beals said the azaleas are having a top year here and mentioned that he and Sally, his wife, spent 13 days in Florida visiting their daughter and her children and that the oldest, Kevin, took fifth place in the state rodeo in Sarasota. He's just a sophomore in high school, he said.

Harvey Smith said Celia called him and wanted to thank everyone for the memorial ceremony at Grant Park for her late husband Fred Weir, with the placing of the brick with his name at the Conifer forest across from the Kennard Nature Nook.

 

Rob Hendrix gave for missing last week and for the birthday boys and "that they didn't go to sleep."

Ron Hollenbeck gave us another reason to hear about his wife's new dog. He said he wife walked into her art studio at home nd yelled out, "Oh, My!" The dog had bitten into a tube of yellow paint, he said, showing a face of horror as he used his hands to show the length of the yellow tube of paint. The bus-yellow paint was dripping from the dog's front face and was all over the carpet, he said. "What are we going to do?" he said his wife cried. "I've got some paint thinner," he quipped, but then they got real, he said, and cleaned up the damage. 

Ron said Chuck King has also joined him in his volunteering work at the VA Grotto. 

Rebecca Quinones said her daughter, a freshman at Bowling Green, has been made the Vice President of the school's Rotaract Club. We congratulate her on her leadership.

Peachy gave for getting peachier each day after not feeling very peachy lately.
Boyd Preston gave for his wife, and for Brady Kress being at Rotary.

Brian Hayes gave for have a houseful of relatives and Deb gave for being Happy, and Shelley Fisher said she has a niece going to Brazil on a Beavercreek Rotary Club exchange. Shelley said she wears her Paul Harris pin everywhere and promotes Rotary wherever she can.

Frank Perez said he was in New Orleans last week. He gave one Happy Buck for that and a second Happy Buck "for making it back." He stayed near  the French Quarter, he said.

 

Raj Grandhi said his daughter, Sabrina Grandhi, 19, is a sophomore at UVA. Last year the law school's mock trial team she was on was a runner up in the national competition, but this year they were the national champions. This is the picture from the Web of the winning team.

 

 

Ann Blackburn gave for the great social hour at Zink's April 25, which Jeff Senney put a lot of work and energy into, she said. The next one will be in June. Next week she said she will be on vacation, doing landscaping, with about 30 wheelbarrows of mulch...

Kisha gave for last week and for being a greeter this week.

Doug gave for the good weather and Don Stewart gave $10 in memory of John Laufersweiler, who passed away April 14. He said he used to always do John's tax returns. He said he would have given $20, but John would have said that was too much.

Greg Horn gave to tell a story of an annual event held behind the Walton House. Young mothers took kids to see a man dressed like a pioneer in leather pants working behind the shop as a carpenter. He wondered what brought all the young women and then he found "he takes his shirt off," and "besides, he's a great carpenter," one said. 

Lee Hieronymus gave for Carol Kennard, saying she was a Rottweiler at the door, but got a kiss from her (no doubt after he used his bear hug greeting).

Someone suggested maybe there ought to be a kissing booth set up to get more Happy Bucks, and John Callander hollered out: "Are you buying or selling?"

Matters turned more serious when Boyd Preston came up to introduce Brady Kress, our speaker for the day.  

 

Brady is shown below at the end of the meeting, with the John Dillinger Colt 38 Special he showed to the group at the end of his presentation. 

 

Boyd said Brady graduated from Wright State University. He was an Eagle Scout and attended Centerville High School. He is a fifth generation Daytonian, husband and father. He is also a member of the Dayton Rotary Club. Wright State is proud of his achievements, as noted below.

Brady Kress

Brady said Dayton History and Carillon Historical Park is a private/non-profit and therefore gets no tax money. Projects are funded by donors and proceeds from items sold. 

He said Carillon Park was started by Edward Deeds, who among other things was president of the Miami Conservancy District. In the 1940 the Carillon was built by Deeds and his wife. She wanted it as a tribute to her husband and he wanted a museum there as a tribute to her.

 

• Carillon Brewing Company: The nation’s only production brewery in a museum. Est. 2014.
• Hawthorn Hill: Orville Wright’s success mansion. Join the ranks of Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford, and Thomas Edison as visitors to the first pilot’s last home. Est. 1914.
• The Paul Laurence Dunbar House Historic Site: Home of the first internationally-acclaimed African-American poet. Est. 1903.
• Patterson Homestead: Former home of Revolutionary War soldier and Lexington, Kentucky founder Colonel Robert Patterson and NCR founder John H. Patterson. Est. 1816.
• The Old Court House: One of the nation’s finest examples of Greek Revival architecture, Abraham Lincoln and seven other U.S. Presidents have campaigned here. Est. 1850.
• Memorial Hall: Memorial Hall was conceived as a tribute to local Civil and Spanish-American War veterans. It now functions as Montgomery County’s memorial to area veterans serving in all conflicts. Est. 1910.
• The Archive Center: Housing millions of the Dayton region’s artifacts. Once managed solely by the Montgomery County Historical Society (est. 1896), the collection at the Archive Center is well over 100-years-old.
• The structures that were at the Kettering-Moraine Museum were moved to Carillon Park because the city of Kettering no longer wanted to be in the museum business, Brady said.
• Recently they purchased the old Neil's Heritage House property. Carillon Park is surrounded by the river, Calvary Cemetery, and UD, Brady said. They hoped to grab that piece of land while they could, he said. Philanthropy, programs and admissions helped with the purchase, as did sales from the Brewery and Culp's chicken salad.
• Brady said they are setting up a museum in Miamisburg related to Mound Laboratory that should be ready in late October, dealing with energy. 
• Carillon Park has 65 acres with 35 buildings, Brady said. They created a master plan a year ago, and produced a half hour TV show broadcast on WHIO five different times. It told of the challenges they wanted to pursue to better serve and involve the public. They want to entertain and be educational, he said. They have had success with the 1930's era print shop where people can watch how things were printed back then and also buy cards and items produced there. Brady said there is a big brewing heritage in southwest Ohio and where Hauer Music was downtown was originally The Sachs Brewery. They decided to pattern their brewery in Carrilon Park after that and also have a restaurant to serve lunch and dinner every day. 
• They also wanted to focus on the Carillon, and thus built the state's tallest lighted Christmas tree around the Carillon, though King's Island may try to top that, he said. The first concert at the Carillon was played on Christmas Eve, 1941, he said. Last Christmas 28,000 people came through the museum in December, though some may have just viewed the tree and taken pictures, he said.
• Brady said they are adding a larger train to go around the entire park and be more comfortable to ride on than the existing small trains. 
• The theater portrayal with robotic speakers now is more cohesive, with Wright, Kettering, Deeds, and Wright's dog telling their stories. 
• They also want to include some of the region's sports heritage, Brady said. The first NFL game was played in October 1920 between the Dayton Triangles and the Columbus Panhandles. Here's a brief description from the Web of that beginning, as reported by a Cincinnati Enquirer writer:

  On Oct. 3, 1920, the Dayton Triangles beat the Columbus Panhandles 14-0 in the first game between two members of the National Football League.

  Organized in Canton on Sept. 17, 1920, as the American Professional Football Association, the league was renamed the NFL in 1922. The owner of the Triangles, Carl "Scummy" Storck, was one of the founding fathers. He served as a league executive for 21 years and as its president from 1939 to 1941.

  Storck's team had been formed in 1916. It was named the Triangles because players worked at three local factories. The Triangles were a charter NFL team, and the Panhandles joined the league before the start of the 1920 season.

  During their first contest, played in Dayton, the Triangles' Louis Partlow scored the first NFL touchdown. George "Hobby" Kinderdine of the Triangles kicked the first extra point. The other touchdown was scored by Dayton's Francis Bacon.

  By 1927, Dayton was the last of the five Ohio teams in the original NFL still playing. In 1929, the franchise was moved to Brooklyn and renamed the Dodgers. None of the Triangles players joined the new team, although five of them went on to play in other cities.

  Rebecca Goodman

• Brady said they hope to build a sports heritage center. They have an old locker room that will be moved to connect to Culp's Cafe and be converted into to a sports heritage center. 
• They found an Interurban Car from 1903 that is being restored, and also want to create a large meeting space for the community between the Kettering Education Center, connected to Culp's and the Brewery. 
• They want to showcase some of the artifacts, such as a horse-drawn carriage, and markers from the National Road, donated from a private collection. 
• They also want to put up a 250-foot climbing tower with the old Gem City clock on top. It could be viewed from I-75, he said. 
• They want to add a boat to the canal locks to show people how a canal works and the size of the boats and how they go into the locks.
• The new Culp's Cafe and the Brewery will help create a larger community space.   

Below is a rendition of what a future building should look like

 

The history of the Culp's Cafe, as taken from a Web site:

 

The Culp’s story dates back to 1902, when Charlotte Gilbert Culp, a young West Dayton widow, began preparing baked goods for her six children to sell door-to-door. Soon, the Culp family opened a stand at the South Main Street Market before Charlotte’s eldest son, Howard, expanded the business into the Arcade—selling poultry, eggs, cheese, and dill pickles at three lunch counters. In the 1930s, the Culps opened a full Arcade cafeteria; by the 1940s, they were serving as many as 5,000 customers a day. While Culp’s was sold in 1960, the spirit of this family-owned restaurant lives on at Carillon Historical Park.

 

 

No, Brady isn't getting ready to do a magic trick with his white gloves, as shown in the picture below. He was just getting ready to show the group Dillinger's Colt 38 Special, presented to the police chief in charge when Dillinger was arrested in 1933 when he came through Dayton. The gun is engraved. 

Excerpts taken from murderpedia:

John Herbert Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American bank robber in the Depression-era United States. His gang robbed two dozen banks and four police stations. Dillinger escaped from jail twice. Dillinger was also charged with, but never convicted of, the murder of an East Chicago, Indiana, police officer who shot Dillinger in his bullet proof vest during a shoot-out, prompting him to return fire. It was Dillinger's only homicide charge. In 1933–34, seen in retrospect as the heyday of the Depression-era outlaw, Dillinger was the most notorious of all, standing out even among more violent criminals such as Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Bonnie and Clyde. (Decades later, the first major book about '30s gangsters was titled The Dillinger Days.) Media reports in his time were spiced with exaggerated accounts of Dillinger's bravado and daring and his colorful personality. The government demanded federal action, and J. Edgar Hoover developed a more sophisticated Federal Bureau of Investigation as a weapon against organized crime and used Dillinger and his gang as his campaign platform to launch the FBI. After evading police in four states for almost a year, Dillinger was wounded and returned to his father's home to recover. He returned to Chicago in July 1934 and met his end at the hands of police and federal agents who were informed of his whereabouts by Ana Cumpănaş (the owner of the brothel where Dillinger sought refuge at the time). On July 22, the police and Division of Investigation closed in on the Biograph Theater. Federal agents, led by Melvin Purvis and Samuel P. Cowley, moved to arrest Dillinger as he left the theater. He pulled a weapon and attempted to flee but was shot three times (four, according to some historians) and killed.

Dillinger got sentenced to 20 years prison.

 

He became embittered against society because of his long prison sentence and befriended other criminals, such as seasoned bank robbers like Harry "Pete" Pierpont, Charles Makley, Russell Clark, and Homer Van Meter, who taught Dillinger how to be a successful criminal. The men planned heists that they would commit soon after they were released. Dillinger studied Herman Lamm's meticulous bank-robbing system and used it extensively throughout his criminal career.

His father launched a campaign to have him released and was able to get 188 signatures on a petition. Dillinger was paroled on May 10, 1933, after serving nine and a half years. Dillinger's stepmother became sick just before he was released from prison, she died before he arrived at her home.

Released at the height of the Great Depression, Dillinger had little prospect of finding employment. He immediately returned to crime and on June 21, 1933, he robbed his first bank, taking $10,000 from the New Carlisle National Bank, which occupied the building which still stands at the southeast corner of Main Street and Jefferson (State Routes 235 and 571) in New Carlisle, Ohio.

On August 14, Dillinger robbed a bank in Bluffton, Ohio. Tracked by police from Dayton, Ohio, he was captured and later transferred to the Allen County jail in Lima to be indicted in connection to the Bluffton robbery. After searching him before letting him into the prison, the police discovered a document which appeared to be a prison escape plan. They demanded Dillinger tell them what the document....