President King thanked our greeters.
He reminded members of the sign-up sheets put out by Jen Gibbs for upcoming service days:
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, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The Foodbank in Dayton, Sept. 21, 8 a.m. to 12 noon
At our last meeting, President King said Crissy Allums, of the Allstate Insurance Agency, has been approved for membership in the club. She was here this week, as you see above.
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 he could not do it alone and asked each member to try to get at least one sponsorship of a hundred dollars or more.
Ray Merz added that Doug Bockrath decided to rejoin Rotary after becoming a sponsor one year.
PDG Harvey Smith said Joyce Young is now at Bethany for rehab still, but hopes to go home next week and be at Rotary. She hopes not to hear how brave she is...more like the Energizer Bunny and Time Watches...she's back as herself and we're all glad for that. Don't waste a precious moment seems to be Joyce's motto.
Giving to the Rotary Foundation comes back to us in grants, as the $4,200 we recently received from the Foundation, President King said.
He said the new director of Project Read wants to focus on helping people get their GEDs, so he's not sure what our next project with them will be yet.
PDG Harvey Smith presented member Dick Hoback with his Paul Harris plus 7 pin.
President King said last week that the club would be getting a $2,500 Rotary grant for Operation Warm, and $1,700 for Building Literacy, our dictionary and thesauri program.
He said the District Trilogy will be Sept. 11, with dinner at 5:30 p.m., and the meeting at 6 p.m. at Normandy Church. Topics will include the Youth Exchange, The 4-Way Speech Contest, Membership, RYLA, Interact, and the Foundation.
He reminded everyone that Sept 19 will be our next social mixture at St. Leonard.
The next Board meeting will be at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 16 at the Park District Headquarters.
President King noted that on Sept. 12 we will have a visit from District 6670 Governor Sigrid Solomon.
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 by Sgt.-at-Arms Erich Eggers and Treasurer Gerry Eastabrooks
HAPPY BUCKS go this quarter to Operation Warm, which provides new coats to area needy kids. Hannah's Treasure Chest works with us to provide the names and sizes for the coats needed as gathered by local social agencies.
Erich said his father-in-law Ken Miller, a former club member, passed away and that services would be held at Fairhaven Church on Whipp Road Friday Sept. 6. Erich gave for a coat.
Chuck King gave $68 for his birthday. Arnie Biondo gave and Doug Bockrath gave, mentioning
his daughter(s?)...doing good things..couldn't hear it all..Jeff Senney gave for a coat and Judy Budi gave for Joyce and Mark gave $10.
Carol Kennard mentioned seeing Celia Weir (wife of deceased Rotarian Fred) at St. Leonard who said she misses Rotarians and sends her love. Celia seemed somewhat confused, she said.
Ray mentioned the father-in-law and Kim and Deb and Jim all said they were Happy, and Doc Hoback gave $5 for our guests. Jen gave for coats, and Butch gave to let us know he is retiring Sept. 30 from the auto sales business.
Tom Broadwell gave for being happy that Hurricane Dorian did not hit Orlando where his son lives. Dan Sortman gave for info about an upcoming kids program Saturday at the Washington Twp. Hall theater. His wife did all the costumes for it.
Sury gave for being happy and Bob Fry gave for a coat and Kisha gave for a button. and Sofie gave $20 and mentioned that in the Tour de Gem the group she rode with got $1200 to help Hannah's Treasure Chest. She rode 38 miles. Way to go...Sofie, our new U.S. citizen...
Speaker of the Week: Madeline Iseli, Senior Vice President for Regional Development
at Sinclair College.
Vice President Brian Hayes was absent, so President Chuck King introduced our speaker.
Madeline said she knows Joyce Young well, as she was a trustee at Sinclair on the Sinclair Foundation Board. She also thanked Wayne Davis for the help in allowing Sinclair to come to
Centerville. They share the building right now with Far Hills Church, which agreed to let them come in to part of the building until they find a new location.
Madeline said her parents came to America as immigrants 50 years ago and got married. Her mother was Dutch and her father Indonesian. She was born and raised here. She was born in Troy but grew up in Dayton, graduating from Colonel White High School. She said she baby sat fir Jim Briggs. She said people tell her they love how she let herself go salt and pepper (hair).
When she was young she worked for Tony Hall. She started her career working with a group on creating the Dayton Aviation Heritage.
She said she'd spoken to our Rotary in the past and even has a Yankee Trace hat with her name embroidered on it. She has worked with Joyce Young, she said.
She gave background information on the founding of Sinclair, as noted in the picture below, which has a motto used to this day by all Sinclair employees, she said. The changing times brought
the need for more technical knowledge, she said. The same has occurred now with the change from heavy industry to high technology. Over the years the college has grown and is second
only to University of Cincinnati for having the most first and second year students. This year
has been record breaking she said. Though the bulk of students, 50 percent come from Montgomery County, Sinclair pulls from an 8 county area and 90 percent of the students stay
in the area. Some 20 percent of CHS students come to Sinclair before going on to other colleges, she said. Those with an Associate degree have earnings that increase from $22,000 to $37,000 in the first year after graduation, she said. The average age of students are 28 and 30 years old, though many adults come for retooling from lower paying jobs.(An aside...your editor here
taught at Sinclair for 6 years back in the seventies...One may age 70 added a lot to the class
he was in. A woman who worked for a bank said she came back to school to get a better job
after she learned the person she was helping train (a young man) was being paid more than she was. One young man never came to class and his father came to see if he could turn in a bunch of papers so I could pass him. I told him it didn't work that way. A number of Veterans at that time had received money to attend but spent the money on refrigerators and home things. Lots of students were very good and most were adults at that time. I also found that Sinclair is well known and respected in Hawaii on trips there, from people not even from Ohio. The Ponitzes really did a good job running the school back then. I was also surprised to see in recent years that many Oakwood High School students were going to Sinclair upon graduation rather than one of the elite ivy league schools, for obvious monetary reasons.)
The building they inhabit has 100,000 square feet and is built on 40 acres. The original building was a multipurpose educational facility with classrooms and a large auditorium.
Sinclair currently inhabits the left side of the building.
The College Credit Plus program lets high school students earn college credits for certain classes while in high school, thus saving them from college fees. She said families save $120,000 in four years by using the College Credit Plan
Also the cybersecurity program has scholarship funding for veterans and family members of
veterans, she said.
Sinclair in Centerville started off in June, and has been increasing offerings, including the
general education courses that all colleges offer, Madeline said.
Like UD, they also offer classes for lifelong learners.
They have an 18 month strategic plan which they are working on and plan to take the draft back to the community for input to see what else needs to be built. The board has set aside t$283,000
to realize this plan, she said. It will be 16 months before Far Hills Church is completely out
of the building, Madeline said.
Tom Broadwell and Wayne Davis still have lots to talk over at the end of the meeting.
And Jeff Senney, Sofie Ameloot, and Crissy Allums also stopped to chat for a bit.
And the meeting's not over 'til the last man, who came in late, but not this late, leaves.
Erich Eggers announced that today's Happy Bucks added $400 to the club's total for Operation
Warm. Sofie Ameloot said the club has collected $3,801, before adding the $1,000 challenge match, and the $2,500 Rotary grant, and today's $400, which would make a total thus far of $7,700.
The Rotary meeting was adjourned with the reciting of the Four-Way Test