11/13/14 Pat Beckel and Dan Johnson
11/20/14 Mike Gentile and Matt Kuhn
11/27/14 John Laufersweiler and Gary Kuntz
12/04/14 Sharon Lowry and Ray Merz
If you cannot greet on the day assigned, contact Kitty and she will schedule a replacement.
11/06/14
Club President Vas Appalaneni opened the Centerville Rotary Club meeting at The Clubhouse at Yankee Trace with the Pledge of Allegiance. Member Ray Werz gave the prayer and Peachy Metzner led the singing of God Bless America. Ray asked that we remember the Veterans in our prayers, as Nov. 11 will be Veteran's Day. Included here is a picture of Veteran Ned Dull of Van Wert with Centerville club member Don Gerhardt, among the many Veterans and Veterans' children and family members in the club.
The guests at the meeting included: Robert Stemper, a native of Kettering who is moving back from Libertyville, Ill., where he was a member of the Sunrise Rotary. He is considering becoming a member of our club. Also present were: Mike Wathen, the guest of Dave Trout and a potential member of the club, visiting for the second time; Rotarian Ned Dull of Van Wert, and his daughter Cindy; Ranjiv Subramaniam the son of Centerville Rotary Club member Sivaji Subramaniam; and Eric Marcus, District Governor for District 6670, our speaker of the day, who is also a Beavercreek Rotary Club member.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Club President Vas Appalaneni said Ron wrote up the notes about the club's projects for the district governor's newsletter.
Peachy said all the dictionaries and thesauri had been delivered to the area schools. 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. Last week students from some of the other schools responded in like manner. One student noted it was the only dictionary in the home.
HAPPY BUCKS:
Sgt.-at-Arms for Erich Eggers was absent so club member Patrick Beckel stood in for him and collected Happy Bucks for the House of Bread. Member Ann Blackburn gave him resounding applause, while the usual clap....clap.............clap from the group preceded her joyous outburst.
SPEAKER: Eric Marcus, District Governor for Rotary District 6670 in Ohio, speaking about the Rotary Foundation, and "Doing Good in the World."
Our club's Rotary Foundation rep Bill Abrams introduced Mr. Marcus.
The Rotary Foundation is Rotary's charity, Marcus said. Its mission is to improve the health, education, and other areas of the world, helping to alleviate poverty and create peace and friendship, among other things.
The Foundation has six areas of focus: peace and conflict prevention; disease prevention; water and sanitation; maternal and child health; basic education and libraries; and economic and community development.
Eric asked members about each of the six groups, getting input on what each group involves, such as training local leaders to help build peace and become self reliant in this and other areas through education and training. They need to learn means of conflict resolution and learn about health matters. They need to see how wells and water filtration systems work and learn how to maintain such things once they are in place. They need to learn about clean water sanitation. They need health facilities and health education to learn about pre-natal care and infant mortality as well as maternal mortality.
Many have no access to education, especially girls, and the elimination of gender disparity and the lack of educational opportunities for girls needs to be addressed, he said. Adult literacy also needs to be addressed so that parents can help their children and themselves, he said.
Eric said statistics show that 1.4 million people live on just a dollar and twenty-five cents a day. They have no jobs in many cases. Developing entrepreneurs and start-up businesses is another area that Rotary is helping with in the developing countries, he said. Finding jobs for young people and helping with micro banks and education for jobs is needed.
He said if every Rotarian gave just $25 every year "we would be able to double the money going to the Rotary Foundation from our District." The big projects are those costing $30,000 and up, he said. Those are considered "World" projects. Fifty percent of the Rotary Foundation money goes to world projects and fifty percent comes back to the district for local projects, he said.
Of the countries that still have to eradicate Polio -- Pakistan, Nigeria, and Afghanistan -- the country with the most Polio cases is Pakistan, with 220 cases as of Oct. 29. Next is Afghanistan, with 12 cases, and then Nigeria, with just six cases reported, he said.
Eric showed how easy it is to donate to the Rotary Foundation by going on-line to the Rotary Foundation site. In three minutes he had completed the on-line form to make his donation of $875. Good job, Eric.
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