Cnterville eBulletin 01 09 2020 (Jan 09, 2020)

Centerville Rotary Club Meeting Jan. 09, 2020 Official Greeters for the week:

01/09/2020 First meeting of the New Year...Dale Berry and Mark Febus

01/16/2020 Susan Snell and Jim Briggs

01/23/2020 Susan Snell and Crissy Allums

01/30/2020 Harvey Smith and Brad Thorp

Dale Berry (R) and Mark Febus were our official greeters this day.

Dale greets John Callander, who has on dark glasses because of drops in his eyes.

Look who came back with his great smile. Don Gerhardt.

Mark and Dale greet President-Elect Frank Perez

Ann Blackburn's guest Margie Jones is a prospective member. Let's hope.

Wayne Davis' guest is Oakwood Rotarian and City Councilman Chris Epley

The table is set with Lee Hieronymus, Doc Hoback and Jim Harris

PDG Harvey Smith and Dale talk about the happenings in the new year.

Ann Blackburn and Judy Budi have a lot to share in the new year..

Another guest has arrived. The man on the right is well known Greg Birkemeyer, our incoming

District Governor in July. Jeff Senney is on his left.

Jim Stuart and Don Overly arrive, with both men having family losses this past year.

Dale helps Jim put a smile on his face despite all.

Ours Rotarian of the Year, Sofie Ameloot, arrives. She helped the club tremendously last year.

Jill Reid is the senior recreation supervisor at the Washington Rec Center, She is the guest

of Judy Budi this day.

The Centerville Rotary Club met at Yankee Trace at noon for the weekly meeting. President Chuck King led the Pledge of Allegiance; Harvey Smith gave the prayer, and the singing of God Bless America was led by Brad Thorp. Harvey asked for prayers for Joyce Young, who is in the hospital at Miami Valley South, and expected to go to rehab after falling from her scooter and breaking her leg. He also asked that we pray for Gerry Eastabrooks, and her husband Dave, who is in Dayton Hospice, bedridden and failing from advanced lung cancer.

Guests this week: Margie Jones, guest of Ann Blackburn; Chris Epley, guest of Wayne Davis. Chris is with the Oakwood Rotary and an Oakwood City Councilman; Greg Birkemeyer, our incoming District Governor; Jill Reid, senior recreation supervisor at the Washington Twp. Rec Center.

Menu this week: Spaghetti and meatballs with a cookie for dessert and garlic toast to go with the meal.

Menu next week:

President Chuck King presided over the meeting. Past President Boyd Preston helped out,

sharing the Happy Bucks duties and good and bad news about recent happenings.

Announcements:

President King thanked our official greeters.

Thank You notes from some of the Adopt a Family recipients of gifts from club members were on the entry tables. President King said the club received a Thank You letter from the Centerville City Schools for supporting their Adopt-A-Family program. 134 families with 315 children were assisted.

President King said we had a very nice evening at our Holiday Party Dec. 12, with entertainment provided by the Centerville High School Jazz Band who will be marching in the 2020 MACY's Parade. Close to 80 people attended. The Service Above Self Awards went to Arnie Biondo (chairing sponsorship drive and portable dog park), Adam Manning, for outstanding support in preparing for the first annual pancake breakfast sponsorship dinner and also supplying all the food from Carrabba's, and Kitty Ullmer for her tireless efforts documenting our meetings and publishing the weekly newsletter. The Rotarian of the Year Award went to Sofie Amaloot for being the first to volunteer, taking the lead on many projects and increasing sponsorships.

Ron Hollenbeck, who was not at this meeting said that he has gotten no response to answer questions from Haiti about a Rotary Foundation Grant to help fund water pumps, but we have commitments from local clubs to add three pumps thus far.

President King said the Rotary Leadership Institute will be held Saturday, Feb. 1, starting at 7:30 a.m. at the Greene County Career Center. Parts 1, II, and III are available. There is a $50 fee that the club will reimburse.

A Grant management seminar will be held Feb. 4 at Normandy Church, beginning at 5:30 p.m. with complimentary dinner, program start at 6:15 and over at 8:30. Someone from the club must attend to be able to apply for a district grant.

Our next club board meeting will be Jan. 20 at 5:30 p.m. at the Centerville-Washington Park District headquarters at 221 N. Main St., Centerville.

During the meeting President King called Ann Blackburn and Crissy Allums up front so Ann, the head of our membership committee, could remove her yellow ribbon showing new membership. The aftermath was a big hug for Crissy becoming a full-fledged member of the club. Congrats...Crissy.

Our exchange student Yok, from Thailand attended the meeting and said a few words in English

about her stay, noting that she has been here five months. "It's been great," she said.

She attends Centerville High School and plays the violin.

She and our club president exchanged Rotary Club flags.

Happy Bucks were collected this week by Past President Boyd Preston and Mark Balsan.

Both Erich Eggers and Gerry Eastabrooks were absent.

Boyd Preston said the Happy Bucks this quarter go for the Alzheimer's Association.

Mark Febus started off by giving $20 and many other members gave $20, stating they had relatives who had died from Alzheimer's. Mark runs a care organization and said that six million Americans have Alzheimer's and that it is the fifth leading cause of death in the U.S.

Judy Budi gave $20 for Alzheimer's and Carol Kennard gave $5 for the wonderful holidays.

Don Johnson gave $20 and said his daughter, who is selling G.S. cookies, has already sold 90 boxes going door-to-door. Having an on-line store also helps out, he said.

Susan Snell gave for being Happy,

Arnie Biondo gave a dollar for Yok being at the club and several more for a University of Wisconsin win.

Dale Berry gave for Alzheimer's and Wayne Davis gave $20 for all the guests and Alzheimers.

Then there was a $10 donation for a relative who passed away from Alzheimers.

Doc Hoback said he is happy and Lee said he forgets what he was going to give for.

John Callander and Jim Harris gave and there was another $20 for Alzheimers.

Someone gave for:.Happy for spring like weather in January.

Jim Stuart had sad money to give as his father-in-law passed away in August and hi mother-in-law passed away Tuesday.

Jeff Senney said his son and his future bride are still talking about getting married..He gave $50, talking about the Boston area,

where they are living.

Brad Thorp said he was happy his son got a date for the holidays.

Still working on learning my new computer and the Windows Ten that promises to be better, but is a bit complicated at the outset. Bear with me, if you will.

Speaker of the Week: Due to Joyce Young's absence, the Paul Harris awards were not given out. Instead, a video was provided by Club President

Chuck King. It was a video starring a black commedian, which President King said he hoped would bring a bit of laughter in place of all the other news.

The video is part of the TED Talk series, which I am told features different topics and comedians. This one took a funny look at unintended consequences of modern technology.

It dealt with robotics and artificial intelligence and bioengineering and designer babies. You can put together things from different gene pool, it seems. He showed a picture of a pretty white baby and if you wondered why it had such a surprised look on its face it was because it just found out its parents are black.

He also showed three young women sitting next to one another and each looking at a smart phone and texting one another instead of talking to one another.

His variety also showed what might happen with driverless cars in the future, and maybe the cars would not be great hangouts for teens, or would they?

The true question is: How human are you?

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