President King thanked our greeters.
BOGG Ministries at Chevy Chase Apartments in Centerville, Sept. 17, 5:30 p.m.to 8 p.m.
House of Bread in Dayton, Sept. 21
The Foodbank, Sept. 21, 10 a.m. to 12 noon..Jen Gibbs said a few more members are needed to work here, and that she would send out info on the Alex Road address in West Carrollton.
Crissy Allums, of the Allstate Insurance Agency, has been approved for membership in the club, so we are just waiting on her induction.
President King reminded members to pick up their Pancake Breakfast tickets to sell.
Arnie Biondo was given the job of getting sponsorships for the Pancake Breakfast and he said at the last meeting that he could not do it alone and asked each member to try to get at least one sponsorship of a hundred dollars or more. Sofie Ameloot passed out some additional sponsorship signup papers today.
President King said Joyce Young is home now, but had a doctor's appointment today so could not come to Rotary.
President King asked Ron Hollenbeck to give an update on the club's effort to get a Global Rotary grant to put 10 LifePumps in Haiti. Ron said he's been told now that a task force in Haiti has to give their approval and that the grant can't be processed until all the paperwork is in. The group in Chicago said they were busy processing active grants, so our grant is still waiting in line. Judy
Budi said she thought more collaboration should be coming from the Rotary Foundation in this regard.
Sofie Ameloot said the dictionaries and thesauri have been ordered, with 760 dictionaries, and 870 thesauri. Sign-up sheets were passed around so members could sign up to go to one of the schools to help pass out the books. All but two slots were filled when a sheet hit one of the middle tables.
President King said the District Trilogy on Sept. 11 at Normandy Church included topics on Youth Exchange, The 4-Way Speech Contest, Grants, Membership, RYLA, Interact, and the Foundation.
He reminded everyone that Sept 19 will be our next social mixture at St. Leonard.
President King said he got an e-mail yesterday about a Literacy project in Guatemala,
and that there info later.
He said the next Board meeting will be at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 16 at the Park District Headquarters.
He said Sofie Ameloot will represent our Rotary Club at a dedication in West Carrollton next Saturday. Sofie said she thought it was at 9 a.m., and would welcome anyone else who wants to come to be there to.
Project Read has a new executive director, Kevin Sorice, so we will have to see what the needs are for that service project. He replaces Laura Mlazovsky.
Happy Bucks were collected this week by Sgt.-at-Arms Erich Eggers and Jim Stuart.
The Happy Bucks go for Operation Warm, which provides new warm winter coats to needy children, whose sizes are provided by Hannah's Treasure Chest, which works with area social agencies to find the need.
PDG Harvey Smith started the Happy Bucks, with $20 for a coat, for our District Governor being at our club.Don Stuart also gave for a coat. Bob Fox gave and the Assistant Governor gave and Chuck King gave for Don and Sivaji being back from illnesses. Lee Hieronymus sang the Wilmington College song in honor of our guest speaker who attended the college, and also knew the song. Dan Johnson gave and Mike Wier gave for a coat noting that he appreciated getting a note pad from the DG that showed a map of the Rotary districts in Ohio, which he said he had not seen elsewhere. Doc Dave gave and Dale Berry gave saying he was real happy and Jim Harris gave for half a coat, and Boyd gave for our visiting District Governor and Assistant Governor. Tom Groszko gave, and it was noted that he used a Facebook Page that Erich Eggers said he then shared with his Facebook Friends, that talks about the Pancake Breakfast, so the word keeps spreading.
Judy Budi gave for our guests and Don and Sivaji, and Jen Gibbs gave to tell about a family trip to Canada. Vas and Kim said they were Happy and Mark Gerken said he was glad to be back at the club. Sivaji, Ron and Jeff gave. Mark Balsan and Matt Kuhn gave and Sofie and Chrissy and Irene and Kitty gave. Hard to keep up with everyone, as it is a very giving crowd.
Speaker of the Week: Sigrid Solomon, District 6670 Governor.
President Chuck King introduced our speaker.
He said Sigrid was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y.
She holds a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and her M.Ed. from East Carolina University and is working on her doctorate with Ashland University.
Sigrid has been working in higher education since 1993 at various colleges and universities and over the past 12 years has served as the Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students/Title IX Coordinator at Wilmington College.
She began her Rotary journey in 2000 in Abingdon, VA, then later joined the Wilmington AM club in 2007. With the Abingdon, VA clubs she served as program co-chair and social co-chair. Moving to Wilmington and still yearning to be involved, she later became club president in 2011-2012.
Among other positions, she became Assistant Governor in 2013-2016 calendar years, District Trainer for District 6670 for 2016-2017 and 2018-2019. She is now serving as Rotary District 6670 Governor for 2019-2020. She is also a Paul Harris Fellow.
She was a board member for the Clinton County Leadership Institute and was the president of the Clinton County Free Clinic Board. There she coordinated services for residents of Clinton County who are without health insurance and/or adequate health care.
Sigrid is a an active member of Cornerstone Baptist Church. She was recognized in 2016 by being awarded one of the Outstanding Women of Clinton County.
She has two sons, 30 and 21, and a host of former foster children. Family and friends are extremely important to her.
Sigrid began by saying she knows our club, founded in 1972, has a rich history, and has spawned five District Governors. She said her object is to support the clubs in the district as best she knows how. She said many clubs do not know what it takes to be a presidential citation club, though our club does, and had looked at the criteria and met the criteria in recent years. She said our new Rotary International president is for innovative construction, which she described as thinking outside the box and taking some risks.
She said she became an exchange student in East Anglia England at a time when women were not welcome in Rotary. She had not sent a picture of herself and since her first name, Sigrid, could be either a boy or girl, they assumed it was a boy, she said. And since her last name was Solomon, they assumed she was Jewish. Sometimes you can't judge a book by its cover, she said.
She said clubs need to develop strategic plans, so they know what goals they want to achieve and how they plan to reach them.
Rotary also needs to establish a Public Image, Sigrid said. The District contributed $144,000 to the recent disaster relief, but since it all went to the Red Cross, all people are going to see is a list of groups that contributed in small print, she said. That won't show that Rotary was a major contributor. We need to tell our story on social media, she said. We need to find ways to engage the community. There can be satellite, corporate and family memberships.
Sigrid noted some upcoming dates. A meeting about membership will be held on Nov. 7 at Middletown High School, she said. in February there will be a district meeting and April 23-26 the District Conference will be held in Wilmington at Wilmington College. The golf outing will be Friday and include a tour of area farms. The Saturday stay over will feature an active service project. The project will be building bunk beds for children who otherwise might be sleeping on the floor. It will be a service day on campus and they hope to have 100 college students participating and would like to have as many Rotarians participating. The bunk beds will be distributed to those in need, not just in Clinton County, she said.
Sigrid encouraged everyone to take on the attitude of "I will!" instead of finding reasons or excuses why one can't do something.
Below you see several avid listeners of our club...
The Rotary meeting was adjourned with the reciting of the Four-Way Test
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