Noe Camp (R) and Abigail Magoffin (L), co-presidents of the CHS Interact Club are pictured here below. They came to sell mugs to raise funds for the Artemis Center, their club project.

Oh yes, and here's Mr. Music himself, Mike Wier, a tuba player in the Ohio Valley British Brass Band and that other brass band in Columbus, which has been traveling abroad and winning awards like mad.  Member Jeff Senney is in the background and Kim Senft-Paras at table.

 

 

 

 

 

 Erich recognized our guests and then collected Happy Bucks.

 

 Brian Hayes gave somewhat facetiously "for the wonderful weather we're having." (It has been pouring down rain of late.)

 Dan Johnson gave and Jeff Senney gave for being Happy. And Don Stewart gave and Jim Hester gave, noting the Reds have been losing of late. Greg Horn gave noting that his third grandchild, a boy, Miles Owen, was born recently. 

Matt Kuhn gave for his daughter, a recent college graduate who plans to go to Spain and then law school, for being with him this day at Rotary. Let's hope she also becomes a Rotarian...You Go Gal...Lauren. 

Brian Bergmann gave for our guests, and Doc Hoback gave for the excellent District Conference. He said the speakers were all good and that our club's wine-barrow, which had three and a half cases of wine, brought $285 at auction. 

Joyce Young thanked Jeff Senney for doing such a good job with the last social mixer the club held.

Jim Harris gave for The Victory Project, noting that the club heard about the program last winter when it got a visit from the organization. He said they spread mulch at unbeatable prices and come out and inspect the site to see what they need and have adult supervision. 

Don Overly gave for the fact that "UD has a point guard."

Brad Thorp gave $5 for just being Happy and Drew Carter gave to note that Musica Dayton Chamber Choir will be holding a concert at Fairmont Presbyterian Church May 20 and May 21. The program is at 7 p.m. May 20 and 3 p.m. May 21. It is titled An American Spring.

Kim Senft-Paras gave for being Happy and Mike Weir gave $5 to mention the upcoming Ohio Valley British Brass Band's 25th anniversary concert at the Kroc Center at 4 p.m. May 7.  

Jennifer Gibbs, our potential new member, gave for being happy to come to a Centerville Rotary Club meeting.

Arnie Biondo gave, but not to the Happy Bucks fund. He gave his $7 for one of the mugs being sold by the CHS Interact Club to help the Artemis Center.

Ron Hollenbeck gave for Interact, Noe, and well wishes for Peachy.

 

Last week Greg Horn told us this story of an annual event held behind the Walton House. Young mothers took kids to see a man dressed like a pioneer in leather pants working behind the shop as a carpenter. He wondered what brought all the young women and then he found out the young man took his shirt off. Maybe others realized who he was talking about, but in case you didn't, it was Brady Kress, our speaker that day.

 

Also, after last week's bulletin went out, I uncovered a bit more about the Colt .38 Special that Brady brought to show us. It is now on display through the month at the Centerville Police Department on Spring Valley Road with other police department objects through the month of May. The additional information found on the Web said this about Dillinger's gun: 

• Colt .38 Super automatic (stock). One of the pistols found in Mary Longnaker's Dayton, Ohio, apartment on Friday, September 22, 1933, at 1:30 a.m. The .38 was found between the cushions of the sofa, along with several other guns in Dillinger's luggage. The bandit was standing in the middle of the living room looking at photographs of their recent trip to the World's Fair when detectives stormed in. Currently in possession of the Dayton History at Carillon Park.

 

The Aim and Purpose of RYLA:  To recognize, encourage and educate youth leaders  To demonstrate Rotary’s respect and concern for youth  To encourage, assist and train leaders in responsible and effective youth leadership  To encourage continued and stronger leadership of youth-by-youth  To publicly recognize the high quality of youth who are rendering service to their communities as young leaders. Only 100 students from the 52 clubs in District 6670 can be chosen to receive the Award, paid for by the club sending them to the two day program at Camp Kern.

 

 

Club member John Beals introduced each of the girls, who told of their experiences at RYLA,

Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, held at Camp Kern in April.

Marie-Therese Camp (L) is a sophomore at Centerville High School. She is a member of the Interact Club, Environmental Club, French Club, Speech and Debate Team, and Tennis Team. She hopes to become a lawyer one day.

 

Marie-Therese said she was very nervous about attending the RYLA session, as there would be a large group of people she had never met before. When they got there they were formed into groups, she said. Hers took the name TBQ, for the teal, blue and aqua mix in the head scarves her group got. They got kidded later because aqua starts with an A and not a Q, but so be it. "We made amazing friends," she said, bursting with enthusiasm. They spent Saturday constructing a bridge out of newspaper and tape. The bridge had to hold a 20 pound bag without collapsing. They had to work together as a team, bouncing ideas off one another to figure things out and roll paper, she said. Finally they succeeded in forming a plan and delivering it, she said. It worked.

They also needed to make a poster on being a servant giver and they made theirs showing their different hands all linked together with a chain link. It showed that they were all different hands but linked together, she said.

 

Isabella Aviles is a sophomore at Centerville High School. She is a member of the Interact Club, the Immigrant Club and the Speech and Debate Team there. She hopes to become either a reconstructive surgeon, an aerospace engineer, or a zoologist.

 

Isabella said she was also very nervous about coming to RYLA but never realized she could have so much fun in two days. "We connected with people," she said. They had a 60-foot tower to climb using ropes. "It took me by surprise," she said. "You had to have confidence in your team." They held the ropes that suspended and guided her on the correct path to get up the tower. They named their group The Flaming Baby Seals, she said. They had inside jokes on how they chose the name. They learned to work together and to take all their best skills and put them together. They did some things where they were blindfolded and some where they were to be deaf and could only sign, she said. 

 

 

Saloni Bagwani, seen in the middle between John Beals on the left and Arnie Biondi on the right, is a junior at Centerville High School, and our exchange student from India. She is a member of the Interact Club, Speech and Debate Team, Track and Field Team (discus throwing), and a Rotary Youth Exchange Ambassador. She hopes to become a mechanical engineer.

She spoke at the end, thanking John Beals for the ride to the program at Camp Kern, and noting that it was beautiful to be in nature and find yourself. She said she wanted to thank all the people who sacrificed their weekend to make the amazing food they ate there. They had good vegetarian food, she said. There were also two great speakers, one who had been a baby during the Vietnam War and Mike Kelly, District 6670 Governor. She said he explained what it means to be a leader and said there are not enough leaders. He said there is a leader in everyone and it is possible for you to be a leader. She said she was surprised what they could do in two days. She said she knew she could not climb the tower but she could support her team. Learning to be a leader and loving go together, she said. She said Mike Kelly came to her and talked to her and asked how they were doing. He wanted to know how they could make the program better.

"He gave us love,'' she said. There were scavenger hunts and ice breakers and a skit on service leadership. She is only a junior but wished she could be a senior at CHS to do a graduation speech. She could complete her dream because she got to give her graduation speech there, she said. She thanked the club and said she had great fun and a very good time and that she hopes many more go. She also thanked CHS and Mr. Henderson, the school principal, for giving them the chance to attend the RYLA program. 

Club president Ron Hollenbeck said seeing the students come back with such enthusiasm "makes us feel proud to sponsor them."

The girls showed a sign (also shown above) they made while at camp, thanking everyone.