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This Week at Rotary: November 21, 2019
 
Our speaker this week was Vincent Lewis, Dayton Arcade Development
 
Boyd Preston had two roles this day...With the Pancake Breakfast Committee and as an
Official Greeter. Here he is with the committee before the meeting.
 
The agenda for the committee looks good, especially with the sponsorships. Thanks to all.
Speakers
Nov 28, 2019
Thanksgiving
Dec 05, 2019
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Dec 12, 2019
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Kitty Ullmer
November 1
 
Crissy Allums
November 5
 
Ann Blackburn
November 13
 
Tom Groszko
November 17
 
David Wolf
November 19
 
Raymond A. Merz
November 24
 
Brad Huffman
November 25
 
Spouse Birthdays
Doug Allums
November 1
 
Shaun Neubert
November 25
 
Wanda Ford
November 27
 
Anniversaries
Patrick Beckel
Hao
November 6
 
Susan Schnell
Stephen Schnell
November 25
 
Judy Budi
Gerry Budi
November 28
 
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Doug Bockrath
November 3, 2016
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Raj Grandhi
November 13, 2014
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November 29, 2012
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Centerville Rotary Club Meeting Nov. 14, 2019
 
Official Greeters for the week:
 
 
11/21/2019 Boyd Preston and Dave Trout
11/28/2019 Thanksgiving...so no meeting..
12/05/2019  Elda Gotos Gay and Susan Snell
12/12/2019 Christmas dinner at 6 p.m.
 
 
Past President Boyd Preston and Dave Trout (R) were our official greeters this day. 
 
Boyd is seen greeting Brad Huffman here.
 
The meeting hasn't begun, but two pieces of pumpkin pie are already missing from the
buffet table. Hmmm.
 
 
Dave Trout greets Jack Durnbaugh, principal at Centerville High School.
 
Boyd is seen greeting Dale Berry here.
 
Greeting can be fun if you let it be, especially with three.
 
Joyce Young is ever loyal and has helped boost the Rotary Foundation and number of
Paul Harris Fellows in the club.
 
The more the merrier. Gerry Eastabrooks and Terry Hanauer, who will give the prayer
this day, are ever present.
 
The buffet has potatoes, green beans, stuffing and turkey. Dale Berry gets the first turn.
 
Another look at the food display.
 
And a small plateful with half the pie gone.
 
 
Jeff Senney brought a fellow Rotarian from the Vandalia Rotary: Joel Bopp
Matt Kuhn is about to take off for Los Angeles, and Sally Beals is heading to Florida
at Christmas, where one of her children lives. Jim Harris in the foreground is just one happy
camper.
 
At the right is Crissy Allums with Gerry Eastabrooks and Raj Grandhi, and at left are Ron
Hollenbeck and Jack Durnbaugh.
 
The Academy Room has filled up this day.
 
This side of the room looks pretty full too.
And the feast has begun...
 
Sivaji Subramaniam couldn't be more proud. Here he is with a picture of his oldest
daughter, Jaya, inducted into the national honor society at Cranberry P.A High School.
 
The Centerville Rotary Club met at Yankee Trace at noon for the weekly meeting. President Chuck King led the Pledge of Allegiance; Terry Hanauer gave the prayer, and the singing of God Bless America was led by Brad Thorp. 
 
Guests this week: Our speaker Vincent Lewis; Joel Bopp, guest of Jeff Senney. 
 
Menu this week: Turkey buffet
Menu next week: Whatever you are having for Thanksgiving...No meeting.
 
President Chuck King presided over the  meeting. 
Announcements: 
 
President King thanked our official greeters.
 
Sofie Ameloot said she has Adopt a Family information.
The Christmas meal sign up and meal surveys was on the table. You can either have Prime Rib
or a chicken meal.
 
President King announced that Frank Scott, the District Foundation Chair, lost his wife Debbie. A service celebrating Debbie's Life was held Friday, Nov. 22 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Swart Funeral Home in West Carrollton.
President King said a pledge has been made to the Guatemala Literacy Project for $1,000. It will be matched at least 50  percent on the Global Grant and if we get district designated fund at least 3.5 times our contribution will be donated. Emily Paver spoke to the group in early October about the need to help educate those in Guatemala.
 
 
Holiday Dinner: Dec. 12, at 6 p.m. with Centerville Jazz Ensemble as entertainment
   
Happy Bucks were collected this week by Club Treasurer Gerry Eastabrooks and Sgt.-at-Arms Erich Eggers for the Dayton Food Bank.
 
Most of the members gave one or more Bucks for just being Happy this day. Doug Bockrath gave $4 to let us know that his young daughter was going to make a flight to California alone, but since she called him to say she missed her flight, "now I don't have to worry," he said.
Matt Kuhn gave for leaving for LA. Friday, where he does business. Lee gave for the OSU Buckeyes.
Don Stewart said his daughter is a Buckeye and he had a good night at the bowling alley with a 698 total. He said Rotary's Monday night bowling is a lot of fun. The Dayton and Oakwood clubs take part, he said. Ron Hollenbeck mentioned kids and relatives and Mike Wier said he has some upcoming concerts that he will provide more information on in the near future.
Brad said his father was in the hospital but was expected to be released Friday.
Susan Snell said she got to meet with friends and would be celebrating her 25th wedding anniversary Monday. 
 
Speaker of the Week: Vincent Lewis, speaking on the Dayton Arcade Development
 
Vice President Brian Hayes introduced our speaker.
He said Vincent Lewis is heading up the Dayton Arcade Development. He is Director, L. William Crotty Center for Entrepreneurship, Fifth Third Bank Entrepreneur-in Residence.

He is an experienced and successful entrepreneur, executive and educator with more than 25 years experience managing entrepreneurial firms from start-up to exit. He has a broad international experience in Europe and Asia, more than 20 years experience as an adviser to closely held businesses through board service, succession, estate planning, and business strategy. He is a proven effective faculty member and administrator in higher-education from teaching a broad range of business disciplines including entrepreneurship, strategy and organizational behavior, to developing curriculum, managing experiential programming, staff and budgets. He has extensive experience coaching and guiding lean start-ups and young entrepreneurs through business model development, launch, capital raise, and growth.

He attended Western Kentucky University from 1982 to 1986 and received an MA in Business Administration and Management General at Antioch from 193-1995. He was in the Harvard Business School Management Program from 2000 to 2002.

He is president and operation manager of Arcade Innovation Hub, LLC

Vincent said The Arcade Innovation Hub is a newly created joint venture between the University of Dayton and Dayton's Entrepreneurs Center. The Hub, expected to be completed in the second half of 2020, will be a 95,000 square foot space located in the iconic Dayton Arcade. It will house academic programs in entrepreneurship, art and design, and creativity. It will also be the home of a 57,000 square foot co-working space. He said he wants to get UD students out of the UD bubble.

He said VanDyne Crotty started the Entrepreneurs Center in 1959, teaching entrepreneurship as a discipline. The Center ranked in the top 50 in the country in 2004 and 2005, he said.

He said the Arcade was designed by Eugene Barney and Michael Gibbons to be a city within a city for market housing. Barney was from the Barney and Smith Rail car company and had been to Europe where he saw how many people came to the farmer's market. The design was a domed area with a Third Street Flemish-looking building.  For 70 years it also housed the Cup Cafe, from 1904 to 1974, when there was remodeling and the building was impacted by movement to the suburbs of many of the urban residents.

During World War II  the dome was painted black and in the 1970s a remodeling included a downtown shopping mall, with the Metropolitan, Lerners, Richmond Brothers, etc. In the early '80s

there was a food court and Charlie's Restaurant with great clam chowder. Then in 1992 the owners could no longer pay the mortgage. Vincent said Tom Danis took over and kept the space dry and secure and paid the taxes.  In the mid 2000 period it was non-profit and they couldn't pay the taxes and the homeless were going in and there were leaks and the fire extinguisher broke and broke some of the glass in the dome.  In 2004 McCrory's with the rest for $600,000 for back taxes. It was bought for the bricks but found he couldn't tear it down and then the great recession came and in 2019 Mayor Whaley was going to tear it down but the city budget couldn't afford the 10 to 15 million needed for the demolition, as it only had 1.5 million a year for demolition in its budget.
That's when UD began discussions with the community and noted that 50 percent of the students come from out of state. They need to learn how to start new ventures.
They wanted to fill the gap and use a venture concept 501-C-3.  They would leverage UD strength and tech depth expertise and have immersion vs. connection. It was decided that 416,000 square feet would be housing for students, with near by parking garages available for parking.
With funding from grants and federal tax credits and the city of Dayton, etc.
The Arcade Innovation Hub will also have 18,000 square feet they will sublease. It will have 20,000 square feet of academic space, and 57,000 square feet directed at co-share. UD is also seeking an incubator manager to serve West Dayton with internships in entrepreneurship. he said he hopes DPS schools will have students come in and learn with the possibility of getting a $40,000 scholarship to the university.
 

As described on the internet: The Arcade Innovation Hub is described as a newly created joint venture between the University of Dayton and Dayton's Entrepreneurs Center. The Hub, expected to be completed in the second half of 2020, will be a 95,000 square foot space located in the iconic Dayton Arcade. It will house academic programs in entrepreneurship, art and design, and creativity. It will also be the home of a 57,000 square foot co-working space.

Vincent leads a nationally ranked entrepreneurship center for the University of Dayton. He teaches undergraduate course in entrepreneurship and manages the experiential learning activities for the entrepreneurship program.

He teaches undergraduate and graduate level entrepreneurship and management classes in one of the top 20 entrepreneurship programs in the U.S. Courses taught include corporate strategy, the capstone course in entrepreneurship and Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures. Also has served as director of the UD Business Plan Competition, one of the largest university level business plan competitions in the U.S

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