03/13/14 John Callander and Gerry Eastabrooks

03/20/14 Deb Dulaney and Erich Eggers

03/27/14 Mike Gentile and Cynthia Fraley

04/03/14 Tom Broadwell and Bob Fry

If you cannot greet on the day assigned, contact Kitty and she will schedule a replacement

 

 

March 6, 2014, Centerville Rotary at The Clubhouse at Yankee Trace

Centerville Rotary Club president Judy Budi opened the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance. Don Overly gave the prayer and Dick Hoback led the singing of God Bless America.

 

The guests at the meeting included Irene Ullmer, mother of member Kitty Ullmer, and Rotarian Ned Dull and his daughter Cindy, of Van Wert. Audrey Miller, a speech and English teacher at Alter High School, and Anthony Pellegrino, a junior at Alter, were also guests, with Anthony also being our speaker of the day.

 

President Judy Budi announced that Judy and Ron will be appearing on Centerville Reports Today. The show begins airing Monday on Cable channel 5 to all households with Time Warner Cable located south of Dayton (approximately 50,000) including Centerville, Washington Township, Oakwood, Kettering, Miamisburg, Springboro, Miami Township, Moraine, West Carrollton and Germantown. You may also view it on U-Verse, channel 99. It can be streamed live at www.mvcc.net. 

Judy also noted that anyone wanting a special lunch should let her know so the club is not charged extra for it. If they are not on a list of always wanting the chicken salad luncheon, then they should let Yankee Trace know before the meeting they do want the special lunch. The club is charged extra for any special lunches ordered on the meeting day itself, she said.

Judy said John Callander and others going to the House of Bread, need to remember the date is now March 21

Anyone interested in helping man a club booth at the Heart of Centerville community event March 22, should let Judy know. Member Pat Beckel said he will do it if no one else steps up to help, but he'd like to have some help, since it runs from 11 am to 3 pm

Club member Ron Hollenbeck said April 26 will be the Rebuilding Dayton day this year. The club organized a pit crew to do some repainting for the program last year, he said. 

Also the club will need some volunteer help for mulching at Hithergree May 3rd, he said. 

There will also be a need to have some members help deliver books to homebound seniors once a month as part of a literacy program at Hithergreen. Members interested in helping out should contact Cynthia Fraley, he said.

 

Judy said the club will pay the $70 for members wishing to attend the March 22 Rotary Leadership Institute for District 6670 in Xenia. You can contact her for more information.

Erich Eggers, the club's Sgt.-at-arms, was back collecting Happy Bucks for the Eagle Scout project at The Castle.

Club member Deb Dulaney introduced the presentation by briefly discussing the origin of the Four-Way Test, stating that Rotary borrowed the test from  Herbert J. Taylor, who in the early 1930s  set out to save the Club Aluminum Products distribution company from bankruptcy. He believed himself to be the only person in the company with 250 employees who had hope. His recovery plan started with changing the ethical climate of the company. You can read more about him on Wikipedia and other internet sites. .

 The test speaks to the issues of truth, peace and justice, Deb said, as well as to fairness, the building of good will and better friendships and benefitting others. The four-way test has been translated into 100 languages.

She said when Anthony delivers his speech before the District judges in Millett Hall at Wright State University March 30, he will not be able to use notes or a lecturn and that the speech has to be no less than four minutes and no more than six minutes.

 Anthony  chose to show how the Four-Way test can be used to show how delayed gratification helps people build better relationships and a better community. 

"Is it the truth?" is the first test, and he used various personal examples to show how by delaying self gratification, and being concerned for others can help the greater good if your own concerns are not your first concerns. You can build stronger families and communities by helping others, he said. He spoke of young love, and said that youthful rushes of emotion are often hard to maintain. Keeping the concept of delaying gratification gives one time to mature and develop and aim for the better good of the family and community, he said, though much more eloquently than this brief summary allows. What it's all about, it seems, is integrity and service above self, Rotary's motto.

We wish him the best at the Districtn Many of those who heard him speak said they were in awe of his grasp of such mature thoughts at his young age and thought his speech was excellent.

 

 

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