11/20/14 Mike Gentile and Matt Kuhn
11/27/14 John Laufersweiler and Gary Kuntz
12/04/14 Sharon Lowry and Ray Merz
12/10/14 Dan Johnson and Pat Beckel
If you cannot greet on the day assigned, contact Kitty and she will schedule a replacement.
11/13/14
Club President Vas Appalaneni opened the Centerville Rotary Club meeting at The Clubhouse at Yankee Trace with the Pledge of Allegiance. Member Sivaji Subramaniam gave the prayer and Mike Weir led the singing of My Country Tis of The.
The guests at the meeting included: Rotarian Ned Dull of Van Wert, and his daughter Cindy; Dayton Rotarian Jack Lohbeck; and our speaker Mark Pompilio.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Club President Vas Appalaneni said member Bill Abrams still has a few Super Bowl raffle tickets left to sell.
Dan Johnson, membership chairman, said they hope to get more new members, as membership now stands at 57 with the addition of our newest member Raj...but that last year we inducted five new members. He said more will be done to introduce people to the club and that Gerry Eastabrooks and Shelley Fisher will head up the social committee for the club to get some social activities going and that there will be future highlighting of members in the club's newsletter.
Peachy said there were still 9 family's left in the Adopt-A-Family Christmas list, so if you want to adopt a family to provide gifts for, see him. Drop off times for the wrapped gifts will be on Dec. 4 and Dec. 8 at Kline Elementary School, 99 Virginia Ave...from 3 to 7:30 p.m. on the fourth and from 7 a.m. to noon on Dec. 8.
Member Joyce Young asked members to participate in a project jointly with the local Red Cross to help area military Veterans. She asked that members bring in Christmas Cards that can be signed by members and given to locals Veterans in the community on active duty or at the VA. Start bringing in the cards...ones left over from previous years or others you have or wish to buy, and at the first meeting in December the cards will be signed by our club members, she said. Joyce, by the way, will present our next week's Ending Polio video.
Sgt.-at-Arms Erich Eggers was absent, so club member Don Stewart stood in for him and collected Happy Bucks for the House of Bread. He gathered a lot of Happy Bucks for the Cleveland Brown's win over the Bengals and for other happy occasions, birthdays, and such. Ram Nunna gave $20 for being absent while working on a project in Qatar, and another $20 for new member Raj. He said he will be going to Qatar several more times on a number of other projects in the near future.
One of our guests, Jack Lohbeck, of the Dayton Rotary Club, said the Centerville Rotarians on his bowling team helped them come in on top in their recent Rotary bowling event, with Judy Budi scoring a high of 186, for the highest game, also having the highest handicap, and Greg Horn scoring high among the men, but unable to attend on Council meeting nights, so in need of a replacement for those nights.
SPEAKER: Mark Pompilio, the head of public relations/marketing for the Community Blood Center, 349 South Main Street, Dayton
Our speaker for the day, Mark Pompilio, stands before a picture presentation showing the advent of the first blood mobiles in Dayton in the 1980s, and other changes over the past 50 years in the community blood center.
Mark, who lives in Beavercreek, worked in print and broadcast news before joining with the Community Blood Center. He came to Dayton in 1999 to anchor the six and eleven p.m. newscasts on WKEF-TV channel 22 and to become the first male co-anchor of FOX 45 News at 10. He graduated from Wake Forest University in Winston-Saem, N.C., and was a sports editor before becoming a TV news reporter and anchor at WLOS-TV in Asheville, N.C. and surrounding area before coming to Dayton, where he worked in TV for ten years.
Mark said Dayton's Community Blood Center was startefd in 1964 when the need for a ready blood supply for those undergoing surgery was needed. Before a center was founded, families and friends had to be relied upon as blood donors, he said.
Today, 25 hospitals in 15 counties in Ohio and eastern Indiana are served by the center, he said. He showed a picture of Barbara Bartley, the center's first donor back in 1964. Her husband used 25 pints of blood during an operation, but did not survive, he said. But she believed in donating to help others, he said. In a year's time the center was getting 100 pints per day, and a family assurance plan was introduced so your family would be guaranteed to get blood when needed if you donated 25 pints, he said. In 1967 they started adding more hospitals to those they supplied with blood and in 1971 they added blood bank branches, starting with Springfield. They had been in the basement of the old Fidelity Building in downtown Dayton, but in 1976 the center moved to its South Main Street location, which is now the main headquarters still.
Around the 1980s they added Blood Mobiles, he said. They started getting high schoolers to have blood drives and that was also an important step in getting new blood donors. They got 13,000 units last year from the high schools, he said. The blood drives get students involved in their community and gives them a service opportunity, he said.
A man named Ward Freeze got different groups of teams to compete against one another, which also increased donations, he said.
The AIDS issue in the '80s caused concern and the need to screen blood donors and donations to a greater extent, he said.
The Dayton Regional Tissue Bank was started and then with 9/11 came more blood donors, though most of those injured in 9/11 didn't survive and thus didn't need blood donations, he said. Still, the donations had a unifying effect, he said.
Wendell Clark is the largest donor to date with 613 donations, he said.
Mark showed a picture taken of the center's 572 employees to show the celebration of the success of the past 50 years
"It's been an incredible 50 years," he said. There are blood donor centers in Dayton, West Chester, Springfield and Richmond, Ind. The Dayton phone number is 937-461-3450.Some 42,000 patients a year will need blood donations, according to the CBC.
You can give a whole blood donation every 56 days, though you must wait 16 weeks after a double red blood cell donation. Apheresis donors can donate platelets every seven days, up to 24 times a year, and can donate plasma every 28 days. You can check out the center at www.GivingBlood.org
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