10/16/14 Mark Balsan and Pat Beckel
10/23/14 Ann Blackburn and Deb Dulaney
10/30/14 Carol Kennard and Lee Hieronymus
11/06/14 Dick Hoback and Ron Hollenbeck
If you cannot greet on the day assigned, contact Kitty and she will schedule a replacement.
10/09/14
Club President Vas Appalaneni opened the Centerville Rotary Club meeting at The Clubhouse at Yankee Trace with the Pledge of Allegiance. Member Harvey Smith noted that past Rotary District Director Bruce Cook passed away and that his funeral would be Saturday. Member Joyce Young gave the prayer and member Don Gerhardt led the singing of My Country Tis of Thee.
The guests at the meeting included: Walter Senney, the father of member Jeff Senney, and Carol Hughes, our guest speaker.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
President Vas Appalaneni said The Castle thanked the club for its support and noted that past-president Judy Budi and Peachy Metzner had stopped by the Oct. 7 special event at The Castle. Peachy said the turnout was good and called it a great event. He thanked the Rotarians who volunteered to put labels on the dictionaries and thesauri last Thursday, noting the group of eight made a very smooth running machine, and by the next day the books were all delivered to the schools, with some even in the classrooms already, though not handed out. He asked for volunteers to go to the schools for the presentations of the books to the students. You can sign up on-line.
Peachy also said the group has enough money collected for Operation Warm to supply 222 coats this year. He is waiting to get the sizes needed before putting in the order.
President Vas said the football raffle tickets for the Super Bowl are available at 5 for $20 or $5 apiece.
Shelley Fisher noted that the Pancake Breakfast Committee would be meeting at 11:30 a.m. Friday at Bob Evans. She said it was not too late to still order table top sponsorships for the breakfast, or to donate as an individual, or to have an insert on the place mats. She said last year sponsorships totaled $10,120, while to date this year the club has $11,600 in sponsorships for the Pancake Breakfast fund-raiser. She's still hoping it will reach $12,000 this year. The Pancake Challenge only has a 50 percent participation, and 100 percent is needed for pancake batter to be poured on the heads of Shelley, Dale Berry, and Greg Horn. That's 100 percent of the members getting sponsorships for the breakfast. Doesn't look promising at this point in time...but....who knows?
HAPPY BUCKS:
Jeff Senney stood in as Sgt.-at-Arms for Erich Eggers, noting that his father, Walter Senney, who now lives with him and his wife, was again in attendance at the Rotary meeting. The Happy Bucks this quarter will go for the House of Bread.
Jeff started the giving with $50, noting he had both a birthday and anniversary this month. Our guest speaker Carol Hughes gave a dollar for a family birthday as did Joyce Young. Shelley Fisher gave her dollar to note that former Dayton Mayor Paul Leonard now has a show on public radio and would be playing a birthday dedication to her dog on Friday at 6 p.m.
SPEAKER: Carol Hughes, speaking on RYLA: Rotary Youth Leadership Awards. This is an international program created by Rotary International to encourage strong leadership in youth. High school students chosen for their leadership potential attend an all-expenses paid camp to develop and enhance leadership skills through activities conducted in an atmosphere of trust and respect with their peers.
Member Ron Hollenbeck introduced Ms. Hughes, noting that she kindly stepped in at the last minute when another speaker scheduled could not make it.
He said Huges was born and reared in England and after 15 years in the elementary classroom, she and her family immigrated to Lebanon, Ohio, in 1993. She began developing her career at the Countryside YMCA for nine years and then was hired as executive director at the Fairfield YMCA, where she worked for four years (Butler County). In 2006 she became executive director of the Coffman YMCA back in Warren County. After four years there, she changed careers and was offered the job of leading the Springboro Chamber of Commerce.
She has been a Rotarian for 12 years and is a member of the Springboro Rotary Club.
For the past six years she has been involved with RYLA in District 6670, and for the past five years she has been the chairperson of the district committee, running a program with about 100 teens each year at Camp Kern.
She and her husband, Lyn, of 36 years marriage, live in Springboro. They have four adult children and three grandchildren.
Ms. Hughes said about 30 of the District's 52 clubs sponsor students for the RYLA camp program. Each club is allowed to sponsor two students, she said.
When students arrive for this "leadership academy" at lunch time on a Friday, they are given a bandana and divided into teams groups. There are ten colors of bandanas and those from the same Rotary club are not allowed to be on the same team, so that everyone starts a bit out of their comfort zone, she said. "Right out of the door they are given a challenge," she said. They learn about themselves and other people. In Camp Kern's Adventure Challenge they are given a mental challenge and about three hours to work on it as a team group. When they go back to the assembly hall they are divided into cabins, with the boys in certain ones and the girls in others, and then they go to dinner where they have a speaker, where they can learn what kind of leader they might want to be. After dinner they start their projects. The question has been, What does peace mean to you? They first discuss this together and then they are given a four-foot tall black piece of foam and told to come up with a visual representation of what peace means to them. This helps them work together, as some are more artistic and some are more verbal, she said. They end the evening with a bonfire and smores and singing a song, she said.
At breakfast the next morning they work together on a 50-foot tower that has a climbing wall and a wall with telegraph poles cut into sections and tied together that they have to climb up. They encourage and help one another get over any fears or difficulties they might have. Thus they learn to work together, she said.
They also have to build a bridge with just newspaper and masking tape that will be strong enough to hold a backpack and tall enough to let the backpack slide underneath it.
At lunch they have a camp awareness challenge and at dinner they have a speaker and then work on their project. Saturday night each group presents its visual project with creative performances.
The next morning they have breakfast and do a two hour service project at the camp. She gave as an example the clearing of a pathway that a maintenance man at the camp said would have taken him five weeks to do by himself. They received direct praise from the man, she said.
After their service project they receive their certificates of award.
Carol said she likes working with the program because of the rewards it gives her in seeing the young people experience things that change their lives. Many have told her of the changes it has made in their thinking and development, she said. These people will certainly make excellent future Rotarians, she said.
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