Rotary's Theme for 2016-17
The GREETERS:
08/04/16 Rand Oliver and Carrie Lifer
08/11/16 Bridget Herzog and John Callander
08/18/16 Frank Perez and Rebecca Quinones
08/25/16 Mark Balsan and Dan Sortman
09/01/16 Raj Grandhi and Carrie Lifer
If you cannot greet on the day assigned, contact Kitty and she will schedule a replacement.
The guests at the meeting included: Al Scott,of the Miamisburg Rotary; Cheryl Smith, of Solid Rock Roofing, a guest of Pat Beckel. Her husband was a past member of the club; Mark Febus, of Home Care Assistance in Washington Twp., a guest of Judy Budi. He is a prospective member; Pam Saba, of Massachusetts, the sister of member Joyce Young; Lena Birkmakowski, of Menden, Germany, a guest of Arnie Biondo. Lena was an exchange student two years ago and stayed with the Biondos in Chicago. She is in her last year of high school in a German Gymnasium, and visiting the Biondos now. She plans to study logistics in college.
Greeters at the next meeting will be Rand Oliver and Carrie Lifer
The Centerville Rotary Club met at noon at the Clubhouse at Yankee Trace Golf Course. President Ron Hollenbeck led the Pledge of Allegiance, Harvey Smith gave the prayer, and Bill Niehaus led the singing of God Bless America. The meeting was a club assembly to discuss the goals and objectives for the new club year.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Club president Ron Hollenbeck announced that the Dayton Daily News carried a recent story noting that Montgomery County Juvenile Court Judge Anthony Capizzi will become president of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges next July. It was noted that Judge Capizzi was recently elected president-elect by the NCJFCJ Board of Directors and will serve in that role until taking his new title in July. He will be sworn in July 18, 2017, at the 80th annual conference in Washington D.C.
Ron said Aug. 4 will be the first meeting of the Pancake Committee, at 11 a.m. before the regular meeting here at Yankee Trace.
Arnie Biondo introduced his guest, Lena Birkmakowski, to the club, and the two exchanged flags and a pin.
Boyd Preston was absent from the July 28 meeting, so he asked Jeff Senney to lead a short presentation on our recent all-club service day, July 23. He noted that the club members volunteered at one of five different charity organizations: the Centerville-Washington Park District, Daybreak, Hannah's Treasure Chest, the House of Bread, or Project Read. There were 33 volunteers, with 27 Rotarians and six family members participating, for a total of 2,100 volunteer hours. Jeff said he could not participate with the group as he was at a fund-raiser for the House of Bread that day.
Arnie Biondo was the team leader for the park district group, the only group that worked outside on the very hot Saturday. They did mulching, and cleaned and painted a grill, and each lost about five pounds, he said. The group included Ray Merz, Peachy, Rebeccca Quinones, Dan Johnson, and Dale Berry, with his expertise on oven cleaning.
Dick Hoback said the group at Daybreak made dog biscuits in an air-conditioned setting "with good smells." They cut the dog biscuits by hand using small cutters, he said. His group included Shelley Fisher, Raj Grandhi and his son Rishi, and Vas Appalaneni.
Ron Hollenbeck spoke about the work the volunteers did at Hannah's Treasure Chest, from working on cabinets in the back, to putting down floor tiles. His group included: Erich Eggers, Gerry Eastabrooks and her daughter Amber Eastabrooks, and Gerry's friend Iris Boyan.
John Callander and his group worked at the House of Bread. He said the group included Jim Hester and family, including his son and wife Edna, Jack Workman, Rick Terhune and Lee Hieronymus. They worked from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. They cut up meat and prepared the meal and then cleaned up afterwards.
Boyd was the team leader at Project Read, next to the Antiques shop behind Sam's Club. That group included Harvey Smith, Carrie Lifer, Brian Hayes and his wife Erica, Mike Gentile, Mike Weir, and Kitty Ullmer and her mom Irene, who turns 93 on July 31. Irene participated the whole three hours during which the group sorted and packed about 2,500 children's books (with some adult books mixed in). Chip Houghton, owner of Look-at-a-Book, and his wife Laura and son George, along with Laura Mlazovsky, executive director of Project Read, also worked the whole time. Laura said 2,500 books were collected since the beginning of March with the help of donation boxes supplied by our Rotary club, and she thanked us for that. Boxes were put out at the Starbuck locations, senior centers, and Y's..and are rotated monthly. You will find them now at other locations, such as Bill's Donut Shop and Graeter's in Centerville and Oakwood and the Dorothy Lane Markets in Centerville and Oakwoof.
HAPPY BUCKS:
Our Sgt-at-Arms Erich Eggers collected Happy Bucks for Operation Warm (Coats). The coats cost $20 each and will be given to needy children through Hannah's Treasure Chest.
Arnie Biondo gave a number of Bucks, one for his guest and another for our next exchange student, coming from India in August. She will be staying with the Biondos also.
Jim Hester gave money for half a coat and for the five dozen eggs he cracked while working at the House of Bread. He can't eat an egg right now because of that, he said.
Many gave money for parts of a coat and other news, with Joyce Young noting that she and her sister, who graced us with her presence at today's meeting, will be spending a month vacationing in northern Michigan.
Pat Berkel gave for his guest, lauding her many fine qualities, and Al Scott thanked the club for supporting the Freedom Alliance.
Dan Sortman said he missed last week's meeting, all while doing a Kentucky Bourbon Trail.
Carol Kennard gave a Happy $5 for missing the service day to celebrate her granddaughter's first birthday with 30 people at her house.
Ann Blackburn made up for her omissions last week, giving for two coats and for three apologies and missing her mulching service duty.
Jeff Senney said they will be welcoming their fourth grandchild into the family later in the year, and Rebecca Quinones said she and her daughters went up to Amish country and had fun finding Rotary meeting places in the area.
Deb Dulaney said she missed the service day but she and the others were reminded that there will be a make-up day in the near future.
Joyce Young and Ron gave for coats and Erich, the man of the hour, gave for five more coats, the third time he's done so. This time he said, the money comes from a birthday celebration at a local casino, where the family group came home with three times the amount of money they went with. His daughter Lindsey had never been in a casino and she and her husband only had $8 to spend, but Erich said he went to the bank and got several hundred dollars to spend...but that he wanted his daughter to know it was just beginner's luck that they won at Black Jack like they did and that was not always the way gambling goes.
Reminder: The District 6670 Rotary Trilogy will be at 7 p.m. Sept. 7 from 5:45 to 9 p.m. at Normandy United Methodist Church. It will be about New Generations and there is no charge. This is the annual fall training event for all club officers and committee chairs, and all are encouraged to attend. Each member needs to register separately as space is limited. Dinner will be served.
Speaker: Because it was a club assembly, no outside speaker was engaged. Club President Ron Hollenbeck and Carol Kennard explained the goals and objectives for the club.
Carol Kennard said one of the overall goals is to enhance our public image. We need to involve the local media and report to Rotary Central.
We need to use MyRotary and sign up to belong to special interest groups. She belongs to a bird watching group. This connects Rotarians from around the world.
We should have at least two Facebook posts per month and post to the district governor at least four times a year. We need to keep the club Web site updated.
We need to have two to four social events a year.
Carol said help is needed to prepare for the pancake breakfast fund-raiser on Oct. 22. She passed out a list of committee duties, organized under the headings of co-chairs, volunteer coordinators, ticket sales coordinators, inventory coordinators, donation coordinators and publicity coordinators.
With the passing of our dear Fred Wier, who did so much for the club, and handled the table top ads and even supplied the drill for helping mix the pancake dough, additional help will be needed.
She said she hopes to see 100 percent participation with Pancake Day.
The first meeting of the committee will be at 11 a.m. Aug. 4 before the meeting at Yankee Trace.
Ron Hollenbeck said there will be an increased emphasis on the Rotary Foundation and it is hoped that everyone will at least donate $26.56 to the Foundation in honor of the 100 years of Rotary in 2017 and that each club will get at least one more member to join the Paul Harris Society, in which members pledge a yearly donation of $1,000.
He said we need to have one project using a district grant and grant requests need to be in by March. We also need to participate in an international project, possibly getting another water pump for another country, and at least one member needs to attend a grant seminar. We also need to consider partnering with another Rotary Club for projects.
Ron said we have our community service projects, our service days and our dictionaries, thesauri, Operation Warm (coats for kids) and our scholarship awards and adopt-a-family project involving 20 families at Christmas time.
Brian Hayes is going to be a co-director with Kim Senft-Paras for New Generations, and will help conduct the 4-Way-Test speech contest interviews. The New Generations supports Interact and RYLA and the exchange student and the 4-Way Test. John Beals has agreed to continue with helping with the RYLA program, Ron said.
Our new exchange student from India will be arriving Aug. 6 and a welcome reception will be held the next weekend, Ron said.
Ann Blackburn is in charge of new memberships and for the presidential citation a club must have at least two new members and four new members under the age of 40. They need to recruit former members back to the club. Frank Perez fills the bill in this case. At least one club member needs to attend a leadership institute.
The support of all the club members is needed to fulfill the goal of the club and attain a presidential citation, Ron said.
