Here's a special guest, a former Centerville Club Rotarian, Chuck Ackley. He intends to be at the Pancake Breakfast Sat. Oct. 28. Way to go, Chuck. Who else but Tom Broadwell sold him his ticket. Way to go Tom. They say one member of the club has already sold more than $1,000 in tickets. A record number, they say.  It doesn't look like Butch has discovered our guest yet.

 

Here is Doc Hoback looking dapper in his cold weather leather gear. Another Doc is soon to be added to our roster. As seen above and below.

 

And the song Meister himself arrives, with the Don Gerhardt Singers soon to be singing the Pancake Breakfast song. His friend Jack Workman is right behind, wearing his shorts, as if the summer has not yet said good-bye. 

 

And then, Butch looks like he's signing an autograph, but I don't think that's what's really happening. That would be fake news.

 

More to the point, Adam Manning, grand pooh-pah of the Pancake Committee, has arrived and will soon tell about how successful the process has been running with the help of his hard-working committee members. He's been a member just a year, but took on the duties like a swash-buckling pirate and got the ship in order. Good job, Adam.

 

 

While who should arrive but none other than that jolly ol' hugging greeter, Lee Hieronymus.

Just wait til the next photo, which he was sure to make better. PDG John Beals looks on.

 

And here it is:

 

And now a calmer greeting, as Butch rearranges his jacket.

 

And Harvey and Carol look at signing in and getting their badges.

And then PDG Harvey Smith stops to talk with Tom and Chuck.

 And Frank Perez signs in.

 

And Matt Kuhn and the gang follow.

 

 

And Brian Hayes comes in looking blue...coat-wise that is. Mark and Deb and Gerry are back there too.l

 

Now Deb and Gerry get their debut.

 

And not to forget Mark Febus.

 

 

 Erich mentioned that Mark Febus got an award and his picture in the paper for his business activities, but was not wearing his Rotary pin in the picture and therefore was due a fine.

Mark owns Home Care Assistance near DLM in Washington Square, and for the second year in a row was named the Best of Home Care Providers and Employee Choice Awards from Home Care Plus, based on client and caretaker satisfaction.

Raj Grandhi gave noting he is happy to have his family come home.

Butch Spencer said he is just a happy dude, and Eric Beach said he is happy and Ron Hollenbeck gave to welcome our new member Dr. David Herman, and for going to the elementary school to deliver dictionaries and thesauri. They laughed a lot and were laughed at, he said. Doug Bockrath gave a happy $20 for his daughter's success, and Harvey gave for the new member and Brad gave for pancake day and Carol, bless her little PennState heart, gave for the pancake breakfast and for Penn State beating OSU in Saturday's upcoming game, for which she was loudly booed by those supposedly in the know.

Jim Harris gave, saying he would be at the game, and Doc Hoback gave noting he went to Normandy Elementary to help give out books and was going to have the students look up a synonym for dog, but decided to look it up first, and was glad he did, as the first word was: bitch.

Lee said years ago when he went to Sinclair they turned the heat off from 7 to 9:30 and they had to freeze then.

Brian Bergman gave, noting he was a graduate of Sinclair and found they had fantastic teachers. 

Sofie Ameloot gave for polio, and Rebecca Quinones gave for the pancake breakfast. Brian Hayes was Happy and Dan Johnson, with a huge smile on his face, said they have learned their third baby is going to be another daughter, and that next quarter's Happy Bucks should go to The Johnson Girls' Wedding Fund. Someone then shouted out, that they'd need a lot more than a quarter's worth of Happy Bucks for three weddings.

Adam Manning gave for Pancake Breakfast Day, and Jack Durnbaugh gave for the doctor and the first play-off at Alter.

Dale Berry gave for Sinclair, noting he was an educator at one time too.

Mark Febus gave for the award he received.

Ray Merz gave for his first cousin being 104 years old and a pilot until she was 95.

Deb Dulaney gave for Sinclair, $5, noting they help students.

Gerry Eastabrooks gave several dollars, and Jim Briggs gave a dollar saying he doesn't care who wins Saturday.

Judy Budi gave and Dr. Dave said he was Happy to be a member, and that he had forgotten to say in his intro that his wife is expecting their first child in the spring.

 

Adam then gave his report on the Pancake Breakfast and the work his committee has been doing, noting that this is the 17th year of the Pancake Breakfast and that in 17 years it has brought in $260,000. "The club has made it so successful," he said. As the new chairman of the committee, he said he quickly learned "there are so many moving parts," that it's often hard to keep up with everything. He said he wanted to recognize Carol, Frank, Boyd and Ron, and the other committee members, Rebecca, Peachy, Jack Durnbaugh, John Callander, Dick Hoback and Arnie Biondo (hope I didn't leave anyone out...Kisha Taylor, and Carrie Lifer.....a big part....) He said there was always support and that this year was a good fund-raising year. Frank Perez led the sponsor area and the group got 41 corporate sponsors, up from 35 last year. Frank said they received $14,000 from sponsors, $2,000 more than last year, with a $1,500 donation from Carrie Lifer at State Farm.

 

Adam said Carver's has agreed to give $100 to the first place ticket seller, and $50 to the second

You see Adam in the picture below.

Boyd talked about ticket sales and said they have about $9,000 with another $1,000 this day in ticket sales. They hope to get $10,700, but project about $10,300, he said. One individual turned in more than $1,000 in ticket sale money. The third place is doing real good too, he said.