The GREETERS​​​: ​​​​  

 

Here are our official greeters for the day, Arnie Biondo and Doc Hoback, greeting our club's Vice President Chuck King

 

Setting up are Boyd Preston and Brian Bergmann

 

And here is our guest speaker Frank Scott with V.P. Chuck King.

 

And Doc Hoback gets to officially greet Boyd Preston, who's in and out before the meeting to hand out the forms for donating to the Rotary Foundation. Both men also volunteered at the Normandy Church Bazaar Nov. 1. Service above self is their motto and shown in their good deeds. Dick makes a mean peanut brittle and his wife makes a vegetable soup to die for. Preston's wife even carried Irene's tray as we maneuvered through the crowded dining area at the church. 

 

And here's Doc and Brian

 

And now you see PDG Harvey Smith and Past-President Ron Hollenbeck coming in.

 

In this picture Harvey get the royal double greeting.

 

PDG Harvey Smith introduced our speaker, Frank Scott. Harvey noted that our club over the past few years came in second, first, first, and this year second in per capita giving to the Foundation.

 

Harvey said our speaker Frank Scott has been in the Dayton Rotary for ten years and served as a past president. Harvey said Frank works in wealth management for PNC Bank since 1973 and has been with the bank for the past fifteen years. 

 

Frank said when he got invited and saw how well our club has supported the Foundation, he thought that "maybe you could teach me more than I can teach you."

 He read a part of a letter from the Rotary International president Ian H.S. Riseley, talking about the Foundation, noting that Rotarians as a group are very generous people, having raised $300 million for the Foundation, and that "people you may never meet will have better lives because of you." He said Rotary is completely local and completely global. The Rotary Foundation has received global recognition and gotten top ratings from Charity Navigator. It got a four star rating from them and was named the World's Outstanding Foundation by the professional fund-raiser's group. 

 

The Foundation has six areas of concentration: promoting peace, fighting disease, clean water, saving mothers and children, supporting education (literacy), and growing local economies, such as helping a woman expand her sewing business in Honduras.

The Foundation matches the annual fund share and matches polio contributions, Frank said.

The annual fund share to District 6670 is $250,000, he said. There are 3,000 members in the district. The annual fund share system works as a three-year management program. The Rotary Foundation manages the money it gets for three years and then gives back. Fifty percent stays with Rotary International and 50 percent comes back to our district in three years. There is a nice amount to share with the clubs, he said. With 3,000 members and $100 per capita in the district the district would have $300,000. It would get $150,000 back, with $75,000 for club and $75,000 for global responsibilities, with 20 percent back to polio contributions, he said. The Bill Gates Foundation has renewed its $2 match for every one dollar this year, he said.

 

Frank said Ken Rieser of the West Chester/Liberty Rotary Club got four clubs to join together to get a global grant of $98,050 from a district amount of $17,800.

The details from the grant follow: (Taken from the Internet)

Our basic overall goal is to improve opportunities for children through education. We believe the only way to break the poverty cycle is through education. Hospitals and clinics who treat people living in rural areas around Puerto Vallarta all tell us that one of their major issues is sickness due to parasites and bacterial problems. Almost all of these problems come from their drinking water. This keeps parents from working and children from school.

One obvious solution to this problem is to buy bottled water for the family. But bottled water is very expensive. A family can easily spend 50 pesos per day buying bottled water, but an average wage for these rural men is only 100 to 200 pesos per day. In this situation, as soon as a child is old enough to work, they are removed from school so they can help support the family. Our water filter project will either save the family enough money that they can keep their children in school or it keeps the family well so that the parents can work and the children can go to school. Both accomplish our goal.

Another issue in these rural areas is personal hygiene, especially hand washing or the lack of it. So we are also discussing personal hygiene at the same time we deliver water filters. We are also providing all of the schools in the area water filters and an instructional poster on personal hygiene. The water filter and poster will be delivered to each school so that we can discuss with the teachers the importance of personal hygiene and encourage them to add it to their curriculum.

Approximately 8000 adults and children will receive water filters.

 

The Centerville Rotary received funding for three grant requests, he said. Money came for Operation Warm Coats, and third grade dictionaries and fifth grade thesauri.

If every Rotarian gave $100 every year, the annual fund would have $140.1 million, he said.

The Paul Harris Fellow gives recognition to $1,000 donors each year. You get a certificate and a pin up to 9 Paul Harris Fellows and then you are considered a major donor. He said the District has some points available to help with Paul Harris recognition, he said.

Those who pledge to give $1,000  or more every year belong to the Paul Harris Society, he said. By giving $85 a month one can reach the $1,000 amount in a year, he said. Gifts of any size have an impact, he said. He said $10 will buy a mosquito net, necessary in countries with large populations of mosquitoes.

Frank said our club has 48 Paul Harris Fellows, 5 benefactors, four bequests, three major donors, etc.

Our all time giving is $391,527.48. There was mention of six Paul Harris Society members. 

 

The meeting was closed with the reciting of the Rotary Four-Way Test.