11/06/14 Dick Hoback and Ron Hollenbeck
11/13/14 Pat Beckel and Dan Johnson
11/20/14 Mike Gentile and Matt Kuhn
11/27/14 John Laufersweiler and Gary Kuntz
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10/30/14
Club President Vas Appalaneni opened the Centerville Rotary Club meeting at The Clubhouse at Yankee Trace with the Pledge of Allegiance. Member Brad Thorp gave the prayer and Ron Hollenbeck and Peachy Metzner led the singing of God Bless America.
The guests at the meeting included: Shari Kern of the Blue Star Mothers, member Don Overly's wife Dottie, Sarah Williams, the executive director of Hannah's Treasure Chest, and Mike Wathen, the guest of Dave Trout and a potential member of the club. Mike worked for IBM and now teaches in the business school at Miami University. He is a Washington Twp. resident.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
President Vas Appalaneni presented a check for $500 from the club to Shari Kern of the Blue Star Mothers. The money will help them in getting needed items to the troops. Kern said the group has a new meeting place, the Reis Legacy Center, located next to the fire station on Clyo Road. They meet on Saturdays there and last Sunday they presented 70 brand new coats to veterans.
Peachy said all the dictionaries and thesauri will be delivered by Nov. 5. Thank you letters from many of the students were passed around. They expressed delight in receiving and using the books and learning new words and fun facts. Some even drew pictures to accompany and decorate their letters.
Sarah Williams brought along two of the coats as examples of the 200 new coats purchased and donated by the Centerville Rotary Club to Hannah's Treasure Chest. She said as soon as the coats went on the shelves, they were gone and that there is still a need for coats this year. She said they have supplied 7,000 kids throughout the Miami Valley, including Greene, Butler and Warren counties besides Montgomery County. "Your impact was felt. The impact is huge, and the need is even greater here than before," she said.
"Kids need coats. Adults need coats." The Centerville Rotary has supplied about 625 coats in the past three years, she said.
Club member Bill Abrams said sales of the Super Bowl raffle tickets at Saturday's Pancake Breakfast fund-raiser was "fantastic." Last year the club sold 200 tickets and this year thus far it has sold 305 tickets. Bill, along with Ann Blackburn and Butch Spencer, made the rounds of tables at the fund-raiser, selling the tickets. Bill reminded everyone that 50 percent of the proceeds go to Rotary charities.
HAPPY BUCKS:
Sgt.-at-Arms for Erich Eggers collected Happy Bucks for the House of Bread. The group sang Happy Birthday to club member Kitty Ullmer, whose birthday comes one day after Halloween, on Nov. 1. The other five November birthdays, which includes the ever-smiling Bill Abrams, will have to be sung to soon.
SPEAKER: Carol Kennard, co-chair of the Pancake Breakfast Committee....A preliminary report on the Oct. 25 Pancake Breakfast fund-raiser at Centerville High School. Also, club member Mark Balsan, profile, with questions from member Ron Hollenbeck
Carol said Shelley Fisher's goal set for the club in getting sponsorship money for the Pancake Breakfast was surpassed. The goal was to reach $13,000. Shelley promptly put $15,000 as next year's goal.
Carol said the official count of meals served was 942 this year. Last year the count was 950. The number of meals served has hovered around 950 for the past several years, she said.
The busiest time for serving was from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Some 289 people came through the door then, she said.
Members were encouraged to take any leftover syrup home. A number of bottles remained and were brought to the meeting.
Carol said she is fairly sure that the club has raised more than $19,000, "which will be a record." The final numbers will be presented at the Christmas dinner in December, she said.
Dick Hoback spoke for Boyd Preston, who was not at this meeting, noting that the money collected for ticket sales thus far is 94 percent of last year's tickets and that four people have not turned in their money yet, so it may be 100 percent after that. The total is $9,226 for 1,554 tickets, he said. Door receipts were down this year, with $899 collected at the door, for 149.8 people. Last year there were 220 people paying at the door, he said.
Carol asked that members of the Pancake Breakfast Committee meet after the Nov. 6 meeting for a while for a final round-up.
Word was the staff at the high school said they would like to see us back there next year and the members of the club said they hope to be back there next year.
Club member Mark Balsan, whose turn it was to be profiled so members can get to know each other better, said he has two older brothers and one younger sibling. He said he grew up in a two-story home in southwest Chicago. He played soccer but his primary sport was baseball. He studied business management at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He and his wife are now expecting their second child in March. He works for his father-in-law, Erich Eggers and moved to the Dayton area to become part of the second generation in his father-in-law's business, Remodeling Design.
He noted that one thing people probably don't know about him is that he is one of the minority of people who don't like peanut butter. (So sad...comment from a PB lover), Asked to say something about his father-in-law, he said he is "a good chef behind the scenes. He's a great supportive person," he said.
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