10/23/14 Ann Blackburn and Deb Dulaney
10/30/14 Carol Kennard and Lee Hieronymus
11/06/14 Dick Hoback and Ron Hollenbeck
11/13/14 Pat Beckel and Dan Johnson
If you cannot greet on the day assigned, contact Kitty and she will schedule a replacement.
10/16/14
Club President Vas Appalaneni opened the Centerville Rotary Club meeting at The Clubhouse at Yankee Trace with the Pledge of Allegiance. Member Dick Hoback gave the prayer and Peachy Metzner led the singing of God Bless America.
The guests at the meeting included: Walter Senney, the father of member Jeff Senney, Bob Lamb of the Kettering Rotary, Cory Allen, a guest of Jeff Senney, Allen Nelson, and our guest speaker, Hank Deneski.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
President Vas Appalaneni reminded members of the End Polio Day Oct. 24. He said there will be a global update from Rotary beginning at 6:30 p.m. You can log in at endpolionow.org.
Gerry Eastabrooks, co-chair of the Pancake Breakfast Committee, said she heard that Vas was a superstar on TV when he appeared with member Carol Kennard on the local cable program talking about the upcoming Pancake Breakfast fund-raiser Oct. 25 at Centerville High School. Gerry said volunteers are still needed to help serve on that day. Contact Judy or Kim if you or someone you know can help out. Ticket sales are now at $8,300, with 1,380 tickets sold, which is 84 percent of what was sold a year ago.
Peachy said most of the dictionaries and thesauri have been delivered to the schools and some thank-you notes have already been made by the students and given to those who delivered them. Several schools still are on the delivery schedule and a volunteer was needed still for one delivery.
Peachy said the coat orders for Operation Warm were sent in and they already have the bill.
President Vas Appalaneni reminded everyone that raffle tickets for the Super Bowl are still on sale and that the club will earn money from the sale of the tickets. Tickets will also be on sale during the Pancake Breakfast.
Brad Thorp noted that the club's Rotary board met recently and has begun thinking about who will be the president of the club after Brad and Ram Nunna serve their terms, which will end in 2017. He suggested that everyone give serious thought to serving as president and went through the long list of members who have served as club president, noting that it is possible to serve more than once. He said Bob Fry has been the club treasurer for years and that he will need a replacement and there will also be a need for a Youth Services director. People have been willing to roll up their sleeves to do the work, and he said the club is full of capable members to fill these positions.
HAPPY BUCKS:
Sgt.-at-Arms for Erich Eggers collected Happy Bucks for the House of Bread.
He began by fining Dale Berry and John Beals for talking during the speaking of those at the podium. Also, he noted that Pat Beckel was supposed to be a greeter but had not greeted.
Kim Paras-Senft noted that the Friends of the Library would be having a sale at the library over the weekend. Member Jeff Senney gave $20 for the House of Bread, noting that he celebrated his 60th birthday with a surprise party that was not a surprise. Several others gave $10, and others gave a dollar to the cause. .
SPEAKER: Hank Deneski: A polio survivor, Hank spoke to the club regarding his experience with polio and cancer and on the post-polio problems some polio survivors have experienced.
Member Joyce Young, a polio survivor herself, introduced Mr. Deneski, noting that he contracted polio at age 8, and that polio was something this group's parents feared as much as people are beginning to fear the recent Ebola epidemic that has killed many in Africa and one person thus far here in America.
Deneski said he only learned about Rotary's efforts to end Polio about 15 years ago. He said in June of 1956 he was diagnosed with polio. He heard the doctor tell his parents that if their son ever walked again, "it will not be without braces." He said he was determined to prove them wrong and worked to go about life as he always had. He said there is a difference between being tired and being fatigued and that polio often made the muscles fatigue. His left leg is a half inch shorter than his right leg because of the polio, he said. He also has had to deal with a number of cancers, one being in the neck, as well as prostrate cancer and skin cancer. He has survived them all and believes that you should "enjoy every day that you have and share that love with other people.".
He said he had to learn to lose weight, exercise differently and work to keep his muscles in shape. Post-polio syndrome often comes later in life and can cause weakening of muscles, he said. "Use it or lose it," a saying often heard, is of special meaning to those who have had polio, he said.
He left information on the tables for people to look at, which described what happened to the body to cause returning weakness in some people who have had polio. He thanked the Rotary for its mission to eradicate polio and said it is sad to see that many young people don't realize the importance of vaccinating the young, fearing that such vaccinations might be a cause of autism, which it isn't, he said.
Why are these guys all looking so happy? Pancake Breakfast Day is fast approaching and they have just finished singing the Pancake Breakfast song, led by members Dick Hoback (left), Don Gerhardt (yellow shirt) and Peachy Metzner (to Don's right). It's time to sell your tickets, secure sponsors, and ask your friends and family to help work that day! It's going to be a GREAT day, with GREAT food, for many GREAT causes! Also pictured are Jim Harris and John Callander.
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