President Sofie Ameloot welcomed everyone to the Centerville Rotary Club and led reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance. Brian Hayes provided the prayer.
Quote of the day (provided by Don Overly): "Sucess consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." by Winston Churchill
Today’s Announcements:
- First full week in February will be a Service Week. There are three opportunities to put together journals for Crayons to Classrooms & blankets for My Very Own Blanket, given to foster children. No sewing skills required. Let Kelly know if you can help.
- Monday, Feb 3; 4:30-6:15 pm at Yankee Trace
- Wednesday, Feb 5; 5-7 pm at Dayton Diaper Depot, 2175 Leiter Road, Miamisburg
- Saturday, Feb 8; 9:30-11:30 am at Dayton Diaper Depot office, 2175 Leiter Road, Miamisburg
- Our next social will be on February 6, at Zinks Meats & Fine Wine, 4:30 - 7:30 pm. We will provide wine & finger foods.
- Save the Date fliers for our Golf Outing are available to share. Hannah’s Treasure Chest will be our primary charity to receive funds from the outing. To date, 5808 coats have been provided to HTC/Operation Warm by our club over the years. We will be opening registration early next month.
- Youth Exchange poster was placed on the tables to help find another host family for Enzyme. Arnie took her to North Carolina this past weekend to meet with the new outbound students. Please take copies of the flyer to hang at your church’s bulletin board or give to friends.
- Welcome to Julie Eversole, our newest member approved by the Board.
- Welcome also to visitors PDG Frank Scott, RI Past-President Mark Maloney, Sherry Jenkins and Doug Wurtzbaher,
Rotary International Past-President, Mark Maloney, was our special guest today.
Mark served as the RI President during the COVID year. He is an attorney who represented large farming organizations in Southwest US. He joined Rotary in 1980, is a PHF, Major Donor & Paul Harris Society member. He is currently the Chair of Trustees of the Rotary Foundation.
Mark noted the current RI President, Stephanie Urchick’s theme is “The Magic of Rotary.” The shooting stars in the logo are very similar to the Pittsburgh Steelers logo, as she is from the Pittsburgh area.
Mark noted the RI Theme came from when President Urchick participated in a water filter project. After demonstrating dirty water turning into clean, potable water, a young boy came up to her and said, “Please show me that magic again!” Rotary does a lot of magic (with hard work), like reducing polio cases by 99.9% since 1988.
Rotarians have a magic wand to do good.
- Could point to the Rotary Peace Center work
- Water & Sanitation projects - our district global grants fund projects in Ecuador and Malawi for clean water/hygiene
- Basic Education & Literacy - like the Guatemala literacy project in our District 6670
Mark noted the Rotary Foundation produces “magic” - hard work that results in magic around the world.
The Rotary Foundation relies on donations and the Centerville Club is a very generous supporter. Last year our club donated to the Annual Fund an average of $519/member, which is higher than most clubs.
He is asking Rotarians to follow Mark’s Magical Markers through:
- Personal Contributions to the Annual Fund and Polio Plus Fund, and to endowment fund if possible
- Rotary Direct - establish regular giving plan
- Polio Plus Society - contribute $100/year until polio is eradicated (can set up through Rotary Direct)
- Paul Harris Society - contribute $1,000/year to Annual Fund of Rotary Foundation (through Rotary Direct) $85/mo or annual donation.
Rotary Foundation is the heart of Rotary’s efforts. In 1917 Arch Klumph proposed creating an endowment and it is now a billion dollar entity. For 16 years, Charity Navigator has given the Rotary Foundation its highest rating
Happy Bucks this quarter will go for Rotary District 5300 Fire Relief (LA area).
Jim Stuart was our Sergeant at Arms. He announced we have raised $4,838 for Fire Relief so far.
Happy Bucks were generously given for:
- Jim Stuart for a good business year and his son worked hard and is back on a select baseball team
- Dale Berry for the LA Fire Relief and apologized for being late
- Boyd Preston for Frank & Mark being here today
- Jeff Senney is going to babysit his grand babies this weekend
- Adam Manning for today’s guests
- Don Stewart introduced the exchange student he and Teri hosted in 2010. Jesse Malma stayed with them for 6 months, spent the year at CHS, and played ice hockey. They have remained connected throughout the years, and Don & Teri have been to Finland to visit his family.
- Arnie Biondo for the Stewart's promoting the student exchange program.
- Mark Maloney for seeing some snow
- Frank Scott gave thanks for having them here today.
- Ron Hollenbeck for today’s guests
- Crissy Allums for today's guests
- Elda Gotos Gay for today’s guests
- Harvey Smith for Mark’s message shared today
- Brad Huffman, as a former exchange student, reminded all it is a life-changing experience for the student and host families. And noted we are also looking for outbound students.
- Sofie Ameloot for today’s guests
- Sherry Jenkins noted she is a former Elk, and shared that an exchange student from their class attended their 20 year class reunion
- Julie Eversole was happy to be part of club
- Carol Kennard for today’s guests & Mark’s message
- Lee Hieronymus was happy to have another person concerned about agriculture but was forgoing the farm report today. He gave thanks to Frank & Mark for being here today
- Jim Harris for today’s guests & Foundation information
- Ray Merz noted they have been snowbirds to FL in the last 19 years, but this year not going due to health reasons
- Pat Turnbull was looking forward to golf weather this Sunday
- Kelly McDonald for today’s guests
Our speaker today was Dr. Andrew Shephard, Chief Research Officer and graduate of Sinclair University.
He works in the UAS (drones) program. Dr. Shephard noted Sinclair is the oldest community college in the nation. They also provide 4-year degrees.
In 1929, Sinclair started their first aviation classes. Orville Wright was on YMCA board where Sinclair is located. The UAS program has graduated 43,842 people.
Sinclair’s National UAS Training and Certification Center represents the culmination of a focused vision dedicated to creating the most comprehensive and pioneering facility and resources for the advancement of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) technologies.
Since 2008, Sinclair College has been at the forefront of UAS innovation, creating partnerships, developing leading curriculum, and investing significantly to establish a nationally prominent program dedicated to meeting the workforce needs of the growing UAS industry.
Applied Research and Development department: With unparalleled resources and expertise to advance applied UAS research and development activities, our projects have included international live, virtual and constructive (LVC) exercises, systems integration and flight testing, environmental surveys, human performance assessments, cybersecurity studies, and rapid prototyping.
The main center is in downtown Dayton and includes a full size jet for maintenance training. They also have a UAS Indoor Flying Pavilion, an aircraft Maintenance Training Facility at the Dayton Airport, and a National Advanced Air Mobility Center of Excellence.
They are a member of the FAA Center of Excellence - projects related to safety, safety risk and more.
In April 2019, they had the first successful beyond visual line of sight flight, at the Springfield airport (worked with ODOT.) They developed Blackfly operations that provide critical medical deliveries.They have models of 25 different aircraft, and run through scenarios for training.
They also provide trainings for organizations all over the world - they will travel to their sites or train them here.
They have lots of different size aircraft that are used for a variety of needs. Dr. Shephard said they have the most comprehensive aircraft program than any other college.
The program creates Digital Twins of the aircraft - virtual copy to assist with step by step instruction for building the aircraft.
President Ameloot thanked Dr. Shephard for the interesting presentation, led reciting of the Four-Way Test, and wished all a good week.
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