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This Week at Centerville Rotary 
JUNE 1, 2017
 
2017 Rotary Scholars - Rose Minton, Chance Koogler, Abigail Magoffin
 
 
 
Kim Senft-Paras, chair of the Educational Foundation shared information about each of the scholarship recipients.
 
Casey Swoboda shared information about his first year at the University of Cincinnati!
 
Vineela Appalaneni is doing well at Michigan - ready to start her senior year!
 
Current exchange student, Saloni and former exchange student, Brad Huffman show off their jackets!
 
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Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Rick L. Terhune
June 9
 
Bob Fry
June 15
 
Matthew Kuhn
June 17
 
Donald K. Gerhardt
June 22
 
Carol Kennard
June 28
 
Spouse Birthdays
Carlos Quiñones
June 1
 
Bev Callander
June 22
 
Anniversaries
Harvey B. Smith
Carolyn Smith
June 8
 
Dick Hoback
Marilyn Hoback
June 16
 
Rick L. Terhune
Terry
June 16
 
Peachy Metzner
Pamela Metzner
June 21
 
Chuck King
Elaine King
June 25
 
Donald K. Gerhardt
Phyllis
June 25
 
Raymond A. Merz
Sue
June 26
 
Boyd Preston
Deborah Preston
June 27
 
Don Stewart
Teri Stewart
June 28
 
Bridge Herzog
Zog Herzog
June 30
 
Join Date
Michael Wier
June 1, 1981
36 years
 
Ann Blackburn
June 5, 2001
16 years
 
Bob Fry
June 8, 2005
12 years
 
Don Overly
June 13, 1972
45 years
 
Harvey B. Smith
June 13, 1972
45 years
 
Jack Workman
June 13, 1972
45 years
 
Lee Hieronymus
June 13, 1972
45 years
 
Matthew Kuhn
June 30, 2004
13 years
 
Shelley Fisher
June 30, 2006
11 years
 
Speakers
Jun 08, 2017
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Dayton
Jun 15, 2017
Bethany Village- Graceworks
Jun 22, 2017
BOGG Ministries
Jun 29, 2017
Installation of Officers @ Benham's Grove
Jul 13, 2017
Goodwill & Easter Seals Miami Valley Overview
Jul 27, 2017
Downtown Dayton Partnership
View entire list
 
Rotary's Theme for 2016-17
 
The GREETERS​​​: ​​​​ 
 
 
06/08/2017 Kim Senft-Paras and Jim Harris
06/15/2017 Jennifer Gibbs and Ann Blackburn
06/23/2017 Raj Grandhi and Graham Ross
06/30/2017 Jennifer Gibbs and Harvey Smith
If you cannot greet on the day assigned, contact Kitty and she will schedule a replacement.
 
Meeting on 06/01/2017
 
Greeters: Dale Berry, Rebecca Quinones, and Judy Budi, pictured in the order of their arrival
 
Abby Magoffin with dad Doug Magoffin being greeted by Judy Budi and Rebecca Quinones
 
Saloni Bagwani, Harvey Smith, Rebecca Quinones and Judy Budi
 
Greetings and hugs. Saloni and Brian Hayes, Kisha Taylor and Nicole Quinones
 
The greeters at the next meeting will be Kim Senft-Paras and Jim Harris
 
The Centerville Rotary Club met at noon at The Club House at Yankee Trace Golf Course. 
President Ron Hollenbeck led the Pledge of Allegiance, Brian Hayes gave the Prayer, and Drew Carter was asked to lead the singing of the song, which was not God Bless America this time.
Drew passed out copies of the United States Marine Corps song, for Peachy, our proud ex-Marine member who has been on leave of absence from the club for health reasons. All gave a cheer afterward. Semper Fi! Peachy. We all hope you start feeling better and that Mike Wier pays that $90 he promised if we would change our tune this week...and he didn't even come to hear....Good choice, Drew.
 
This week's guests included:
 
Dottie Overly, wife of member Don Overly; Saloni Bagwani, our Indian exchange student; Vineela Appalaneni, daughter of member Vas Appalaneni, who got the Centerville High School Interact Club started when she was just a freshman at the high school, going from two members to 40 by the time she graduated (A big Thanks to you, Vineela); Casey Swoboda, now a sophomore at UC, who received our club scholarship last year, and spoke today about how it helped him get started on his Service Above Self endeavors. Also parents, friends, and grandparents of the three of the five Rotary Scholarship winners chosen by the Educational Foundation committee, as seen in the pictures above and below in this Bulletin. Two of the winners could not attend this meeting because of family travel plans.  
 
Our ever-smiling Dottie Overly is always a glad addition to our club meetings
 
 
Our new member Brad Huffman was once an exchange student in Austria, and wore his jacket
from those days to complement Saloni on her collection of friendship attachments, now cards with photos to remember new-found friends by...along with buttons.
 
You can see they are loaded with friends and cross-country friendship, coming and going
 
Thanks to Vineela Appalaneni, the CHS Interact Club had a strong beginning and is ever growing, with three co-presidents this year.
 
Casey Swoboda (R) is shown here with Kim Senft- Paras, Executive Director of the Education Foundation for our Centerville Rotary Club.
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 
 
Club President Ron Hollenbeck noted that our recent social hour at Ollies was well attended and included some new Rotarians.
 
With our exchange student Saloni about to depart to return to India, club member Arnie Biondi said there will be a farewell mixer for her Friday, June 16 at Schoolhouse Park. Be sure to come and thank her for all she's done and her successful year here in Centerville.
 
Ron said there will be a regular meeting July 6, though some members may be off on holiday, as enough said with a show of hands that they would be able to attend that meeting.
 
Ron mentioned a golf outing at the end of June and an upcoming 5K in Miamisburg, so see him if you are interested. 
 
He said our "changing of the guard" meeting at Benham's Grove will be June 29, and he will need a head count to plan on the number of box lunches needed for the day.
 
Ron said earlier that Katie Neubert has been accepted for membership and should be here around July 1. She will be transferring from a New Jersey club, he said.
 
Happy Bucks: Sgt.-at-Arms Erich Eggers usually collects Happy Bucks for The Victory Project, a privately funded Dayton after-school program for young men involving the three "E's": Education, Entrepreneurship, and Enlightenment, but Happy Bucks were by-passed today to allow time for our guest scholars to speak and be recognized by the club.
 
Today's Speakers:  Kim Senft-Paras, Youth Services Director for the club and Executive Director of the Educational Foundation; Rotary Scholarship winners Rose Minton, Chance Koogler, and Abby Magoffin; Former Rotary Scholarship winner Casey Swoboda; and CHS Interact Club founder and president Vineela Appalaneni.
 
 
Don Overly and his wife Dottie sit with the Mintons...see below...
 
 
Guess who surprised their grandson Chance? Tom and Amy Koogler 
Chance Koogler brought along a guest, Erin Damm
 
Kim Senft-Paras stands proudly next to a former scholarship recipient 
Casey Swoboda, now a sophomore at the University of Cincinnati, studying neuroscience and biology, a pre-med student with a 3.89 GPA.
 
Don Overly and his wife Dottie (L) joined CHS scholar Rose Minton and her family. Angela and Tim Minton, and Jim Comis, proud grandfather (far right)
 
The Mintons close up: Rose and her parents, Angela and Tim
 
Abigail (Abby) Magoffin with her parents Doug and Lisa Magoffin
 
Kim Senft-Paras welcomed our guests to our Centerville Rotary Club scholarship winners’ luncheon. She congratulated the graduates and their proud parents for everything the students have accomplished.
For the guests and new members, she gave a brief overview of the club's mission. 
 
"Rotary is an International Service organization with clubs around
the globe focused on clean water and sanitation projects; polio irradiation; basic education and literacy; peace and conflict resolution; maternal and child health; and economic and community development. Interact and Rotaract are the branches of Rotary established to encourage young adults to participate in community service at an early age. There is an Interact Club at Centerville High School. Our graduates might want to consider joining their respective university’s Rotaract Club.
The Centerville Rotary Club’s Educational Foundation provides scholarships to graduating seniors from the Centerville/Washington Township community.  Criteria for these awards is based on financial need, participation in service oriented projects and potential for success in college or trade school."
 
Kim then introduced the members of the Education Foundation Committee: Deb Dulaney, Ed Flohre, and Dick Hoback. Ray Merz, also a member, was absent due to illness.
Dick serves as secretary and Kim is the executive director. Rotary member Brad Thorp is the group's investment manager.
 Centerville High School Counselor Kensie Everhart made sure the club's scholarship application was posted for the seniors and assembled the documentation for the Foundation Committee to review, Kim said.
 
"For 42 years, the Centerville Rotary Educational Foundation has given scholarships to graduating Washington- Centerville high school seniors. Since 1975, we have awarded over $210,000.00 in scholarship money," Kim said.
Money for this project is raised from the club's annual Pancake Breakfast, held the fourth Saturday in October at Centerville High School. This year's breakfast will be October 28. 
This year, 16 seniors applied to our Foundation and five $2,000 scholarships totaling $10,000 were awarded.
Rotary’s motto, ‘service above self’ has been exemplified by the three students, Kim said. Each student received a book especially selected for them because of an interest, career or educational goal described to the committee during their interview.
 
Kim said: Chance Koogler was an AP Scholar, an officer in the National Honor Society, the Captain of the Centerville High School Varsity Golf Team, and an Academic All-Ohio State Golfer. His service projects included volunteering at Daybreak, collecting books for the Interact Club book drive, tutoring younger students in German and geometry, and assisting at the Americana Festival. His personal references cite his exemplary leadership style, high moral standards and quiet confidence, all three of which were recognized by the committee during his interview. Chance will attend The Ohio State University to major in software engineering and hopes to find ways to promote peace through computer software. The Checklist Manifesto: how to get things right, by Atul Gawande, is the book selected for Chance. This book describes how the lowly checklist has made it possible for us to make some of the most difficult societal advances from flying airplanes to building complex skyscrapers.
 
Chance thanked the club for the scholarship and said that when first asked what his goals were, he had no clue. But he knew he wants to make a difference in every person's life. "There is a lot to be said about the way you do things," he said. He said that he was at the club with Casey before, one of his peers who helped him make his goals and decide what he wants to do to help world peace.
 
 Kim said: Abigail Magoffin is a Centerville High School graduate who will attend the University of Cincinnati to study social work. Her scholastic activities included National Honor Society, Scholar Athlete and AP Scholar. She volunteered with the school’s Lunch Buddies program, served as co-president of the Interact Club; and assisted with several of the children’s programs at Fairhaven Church. Abby has been employed at the Spring Valley Tree for the past two years. Her references detail her sincere and selfless desire to help others, quiet confidence, determination and tenacity, as well as her generosity and kind manner. Interact Club Advisor Liz Cameron writes: "Abby embodies the Rotary mantra “Service above Self.” Abby took the lead in mobilizing resources and volunteers for the Interact Club’s refugee initiative. With this in mind, Abby is receiving the book titled A Long Way Gone: memoirs of a boy soldier by Ishmael Beah, the story of an orphaned Sierra Leone boy taught to kill by the government army, then rescued by UNICEF and brought to this country for rehabilitation and a chance at a normal life.
 
Kim said our third scholarship winner Rose Minton will attend Ohio University to study biological sciences. She intends to pursue a degree in physical therapy with plans to become a pediatric physical therapist. Rose was also a member of the National Honor Society, Scholar Athlete, OHSAA Cheerleading State Champion, an Associate Captain of Centerville High School’s Mock Trial program, and a member of the Spanish Honor Society. Her references note Rose’s strong work ethic, leadership skills, and exceptionally positive attitude. Her community service work included serving in all aspects of the children’s department at her church and traveling to Ecuador to assist a local community. Mountains Beyond Mountains: the quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man who would cure the world, by Tracy Kidder, was the book selected for Rose by the committee.
 
Rose, like the other two scholarship winners, thanked Rotary for the scholarship, which will allow her to pursue her goals at college. She said she actually cried in her interview, overcome with emotion, and didn't expect to receive the scholarship, but appreciates the opportunity it gives her and that her goal is to help kids grow up to be stronger.
 
Two of the scholarship winners, Madison Balsinger and Christopher Kang, were unavailable for today’s program, but will join us at our club meeting next week, Kim said.
 
 
 Casey Swoboda, one of last year’s scholarship winners, and Vineela Appalaneni, club member Vas’s daughter, who was the former Interact Club president, also spoke during the meeting.
 
Casey said he never realized what freedom he would have at school, making all his own decisions and being on his own. He said he was surprised by the urban environment of Cincinnati, which was not like Centerville. Right outside the university area, two or three minutes from his apartment were homeless people, he said. He has always wanted to do something good. He said he got into the TEDX program at the university, a freshman leadership program. Then he did numerous things, from starting a philosophy club to being an RA next year on campus, and helping at a little school about 45 minutes away with health inequalities. 
 
Vineela Appalaneni is in her senior year at the University of Michigan now where there is a Rotaract Club with people with all different majors, she said. When she started the Interact Club in Centerville High School in 2010 as a freshman, there were two people, and one of them was the advisor, she said. She did her best at marketing the program and by the time she graduated there were 40 members. She now studies cellular microbiology. She has volunteered at Hospice where she provides compassionate care and has volunteered at an orphanage in Nicaragua. This summer she is working at Miami Valley Hospital and has applied to medical school.  
 
 Club member Deb Dulaney, who attended the recognition ceremony at Centerville High School, told those assembled about Rotary and the high school's Interact Club, noting that the club advisor at the school is Liz Cameron. The also noted that the criteria for the awards are based on participation in service oriented projects, potential for success in college, and financial need. 
 She listed the five award winners: 
  1. Christopher Kang – aspires to become a Cardiac Surgeon and is off to Michigan State University for Human Biology.
  2. Chance Koogler – wants to pursue a career in Software Engineering – Ohio State University
  3. Abigail Magoffin – pursing a degree in Social Work at University of Cincinnati
  4. Rose Minton – will attend Ohio University in their Biological Sciences  to become a  Physical Therapist
    5. Madison Balsinger – wants to pursue a degree in Nursing - Univ. of Cincinnati

Kim used the remaining time to read a letter from Kaarthika Thakker, a 2016 Rotary Scholarship recipient: 

My first year at Rice University has been great, I am currently thinking of studying Computer Science with a minor in Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities or possibly a double major in Sociology or Art History. Some of the activities I'm involved with at Rice include KTRU, which is Rice's volunteer run radio station where I am on the board of directors and the end of the year concert Outdoor Show committee. This year was KTRU's 50th anniversary so I also worked on that committee. Additionally, I give back to my campus community by being a volunteer for the Rice Women's Resource Center as a Diversity Facilitator for the Office of Multicultural Affairs. My committee deals with the incidents of racism, sexism, ableism, etc. on campus. I am also a liaison for STRIVE, a student run organization that offers support for those who have been victims of sexual harassment. This organization works closely with Rice's Title IX office. I am also a Peer Academic Advisor and help students schedule their classes and make sure they're on track to graduate.

 In the Houston community and beyond, I have been involved in PAIR, Partnership for the Advancement and Immersion of Refugees, where I spent 4 hours a week at a local high school providing academic and cultural support for newcomer students. I was also part of a group that taught art classes to refugee students and combined their stories with 4 original poems co-written by my friend and me. We made this into an E-book that should be published by the end of summer. I can send this along when I can, if you want to see it. I am also involved in SketchCity and NetSquared, two organizations that gather people with useful skills so they can work together on service projects. I contribute my computer science and programming skills.  Over spring break, I went on an alternative break trip where we learned about gender inequality and ways to organize and lobby by visiting organizations like the American Association for University Women.

This summer, I am in Houston working on a startup that wants to provide clean potable water to those who do not have access to it as well as helping run the KTRU station and working on my coding skills.

Additionally, I have met many amazing and inspiring people here, including seeing Joe Biden speak first semester! I get 8 hours of sleep every night, enjoy my classes, and finished my freshman year with a 3.89 GPA.

Let me know if any of the Rotarians have any contacts with the Houston Rotary Club as Rice doesn't have a Rotaract Club. I am always looking for more ways to get involved!

 I am very happy here and thank you guys for making it more accessible to me. Money was a huge deciding factor for college and Rice was not my cheapest option, but after my first year I am confident that I have had many experiences that I wouldn't have gotten at a different school.

 
The meeting ended with the reciting of Rotary's Four-Way Test.

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