Rotary's Theme for 2016-17
The GREETERS:
03/23/2017 Jack Durnbaugh and Doug Bockrath
03/30/2017 Adam Manning and Sara McGarvey
04/06/2017 Carrie Lifer and Brian Bergmann
04/13/2017 Sara McGarvey and Joyce Young
04/20/2017 Graham Ross and Brian Bergmann
If you cannot greet on the day assigned, contact Kitty and she will schedule a replacement.
Meeting on 03/16/2017
The greeters at this meeting were Jennifer Webb and stand-in greeter Jim Briggs. Graham Ross came late, so Pat Beckel also served as our St. Patrick's Day greeter.
Seen in picture below is Jennifer greeting Lee Hieronymus
Seen in this picture with Jennifer is Jim Briggs
And Pat Beckel brightens our day greeting guest Kisha Taylor
The greeters at the next meeting will be Jack Durnbaugh and Doug Bockrath
This week's guests included:
Our speaker, Kate Moening, Field Service Manager of Safe Routes to School, National Partnership; Shweta Agarwal, guest of Jeff Senney; and Kisha Taylor, guest of Ann Blackburn. Kisha has submitted an application to join the club.
Kisha is seen here with Membership Committee Director Ann Blackburn
Member Jeff Senney with his guest Shweta Agarwal
The Centerville Rotary Club met at noon at the Clubhouse at Yankee Trace Golf Course. President Ron Hollenbeck led the Pledge of Allegiance, PDG Harvey Smith gave the prayer, and Drew Carter led the singing of God Bless America.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Special Notice: Hope you all got to read the Rotary District 6670 newsletter for March on the Web. Our Centerville Club recognized Saloni Bagwani, who has made us all proud with her many accomplishments.
President Ron Hollenbeck reminded people to bring in wine, shoes and socks, for the April District Conference in Mason. The golf outing is April 28, he said.
The club will pick up the $100 cost of the conference.
Ron mentioned the Rotary Leadership Institute April 22 at the Greene County Career Center in Xenia. Cost will be picked up by the club.
Ron said Design Outreach plans to deliver a new pump for our clean water project in Africa.
Ron thanked member Jeff Senney for hosting the March 15 social at his house. All had a great time and the Senneys were marvelous host and hostess, he said.
"I love my club. I love my club. I love my club," Boyd Preston murmured to himself as he was called up and given just two minutes to speak his piece. Not that anyone would ever accuse him of being long-winded, now a standing joke with the club...(not to Boyd). As he got up, Jim Briggs got up and looked as if he was leaving, when he was actually just going for some more coffee at the back of the room by the door. "Now they're walking out on me," Boyd murmured.
Boyd reminded club members of our Rotary Service Day, March 18, with March 17 the day for those serving at the House of Bread. There are six options: House of Bread, Centerville-Washington Park District, Daybreak, Hannah's Treasure Chest, Project Read, and St. Vincent dePaul. You can bring along a family member to help out, if you wish. A make-up day can be arranged for those who can't make that service day. Bethany dropped off the list due to some construction work. Also two alternative work days were added, one at Hannah's Treasure Chest March 11, and one April 1 at the Park District.
Dick Hoback and five others helped paint at Hannah's Treasure Chest March 11. The group included Rob Hendrix, Dan Johnson, Arnie Biando, and his wife Nancy and daughter.
Member Dan Johnson was presented with his first Paul Harris Fellow by PDG Harvey Smith. He's seen here proudly displaying his certificate and pin.
President Ron Hollenbeck then called up his neighbor Brian Bergmann to be inducted into the club with the help of PDG Harvey Smith.
Brian got a chance to speak a bit about himself. He said he is originally from Chicago and worked for the Bank of Japan for Honda in Columbus before coming to Dayton. It was international. He said he had been a financial adviser until the downturn came. He married in 1952 he said. He and his wife have two children. His son Eric had a son Graham in June of last year. His daughter Amelia will be 27. She lives in Colorado Springs, where she loves the mountains and skiing, which Brian said he did with the family when he was younger. He said he was with Honda Bank from 1990 until 1996 when they shut the office down and he went with Bank One which had a sister relationship with the bank. He got to come to this area to train commercial lending people. He was in investment banking with capital marketing group going all over the state, and now Dayton and Cincinnati was what brought him to our region.
Happy Bucks: Sgt.-at-Arms Erich Eggers collected Happy Bucks for Homefull, and club treasurer Gerry Eastabrooks gathered the money in a tin cup.
President Ron Hollenbeck gave for Brian Bergmann becoming a new member of the club and for Dan Johnson getting his first Paul Harris Fellow for donating to the Rotary Foundation.
Many more members gave for Brian and/or Dan.
Shelley Fisher gave for getting to go to St. Leonard with her therapy dog, and Peachy gave for new member Brian and for his grandson.
Boyd said he was proud to see that 54 club members had signed up for the service day projects.
Kim Senft-Paras, Drew Carter, and Pat all gave, Pat noting that one of his sons in his first year of gymnastics won a five-state contest for those 11 years and up.
Deb Dulaney gave for Jeff hosting the social, as did our guest, Shweta Agarwal.
Greg Horn gave for the Flyers, hoping for a win in the tournament Friday. Jeff Senney said he was "so proud of the social event," especially since only three people had said they were coming and they ended up with a nice houseful. Tracie gave though they almost forgot her in going around the tables.
Dan Johnson gave for the Florida Gators playing East Tennessee State. He showed his team socks to prove his loyalty.
Ann Blackburn gave for Kisha coming back to the club and deciding to become a member. She also asked Jeff about a woman who came to the social and at first he wasn't sure which woman she was talking about, and Ann wanted to know whether he kissed or hugged her, and finally he said, "Yes, I kissed and hugged her."
Frank Perez gave $5, saying something about the bracket (maybe a win?), and Rebecca Quinones gave for a crazy week at work, and Erich Eggers gave $5 for Jeff's successful social, and for Jeff being a fine host.
Today's Speaker: Kate Moening, Field Service Manager for Safe Routes to School National Partnership.
Boyd Preston introduced our speaker, noting she heads up a group of 550 people in the Safe Routes to School, National Partnership Ohio. Her job is working with government and teachers, etc., to help kids bike and walk to school safely, he said. She is serving as host family for a Slovakian exchange student and also has had a 15-year-old from Chile exchange student, and her daughter is an exchange student in Finland.
Kate said she works with other states and the national organization to create safe routes to school for kids. She said she is in Rotary and knows that Centerville has participated in the Safe Routes program, as has Bellbrook schools. She said the organization is non-profit and seeks to promote healthy and active lifestyles, supporting bicycling and walking, which can also help cut down on obesity and transportation costs.
Ohio has a Safe Routes network that includes transportation, health, education, advocacy, aging organizations, communications, newsletters, action teams, and state health and transportation plans.
Kate said 50 percent of students walked or biked to school in 1969, while today only 13 percent do.
The Department of Transportation has been working since 2005 on helping to get Safe Routes to School. Engineering helps make sure sidewalks and intersections are safe. Lighting is also looked at. Education looks at the rules and safety concerns. Encouragement is made to get the community and government to invest in the safety needed. Enforcement involves such things as crossing guards and speed limits and such. Evaluation is done to adjust equity.
The program is about 10 years old here, but has been around in other nations for a long time, Kate said.
Getting kids to bike and walk saves on transportation costs, she said. Developers need to make new communities more walkable and remember there are people who don't drive and need to be able to walk to where they are going. That includes the elderly and the young who don't want to have to depend on the automobile to get where they are going.
Ohio has one of the best programs in the nation, she said. She mentioned a Bike Rodeo to be held from 9 a.m. to noon May 20 at Miami Valley South Hospital, and said there is a Safe Routes Academy that offers free training workshops to groups.
The club members ended the meeting by reciting the words of Rotary's Four-Way Test.
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