September 9, 2013 The Slippery Rock Rotary “Colonel’s Crier” Newsletter for Slippery Rock Rotary Club District 7280 And Slippery Rock Satellite Club President: Brad Smith • Vice President: Ron Fodor • Secretary: Debbie Kaylor Treasurer: Ken Harris • Assistant Treasurer: Debbie King Meeting Location: NexTier Bank (lower level) Slippery Rock, Pa. 16057 Slippery Rock Satellite Club meets the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the Month at 12N on SRU Campus Minutes from Monday, September 9, 2013 Happy Birthday to the Joe’s Joe Marks on 9/7 and Joe Lofton on 9/10/13 And if my records are correct, we missed a very special birthday, our president; Brad Smith celebrated on September 1. Happy Birthday Brad!! Today’s Attendees: Hank Anna, Keith Dils, Todd Erdos, Regina Greenwald, Ken Harris, Judy Hughes, Deb Kaylor, Nicole Klaes, Bob Lanning, Joe Lofton, Joe Marks, Harold McDowell, Karen Pierce, Walter Powell, Art Richards, Paul Rizza, Brad Smith, and Warren Smith Rotary and other Guests: Tom Chelgren, District Chair for RYLA and Coordinator for the Paul Harris Society, Mariah Seymour and Josh Duman, Rotaractors, Chris, guest and friend of Bob Lanning. Dates of Upcoming Meetings/Other Dates of Interest: (Meetings in Blue) • Saturday, September 14. Villagefest. The signup sheet to help for the day has been passed around. If you have any questions, please contact Regina. • Monday, September 16 • Thursday, September 19. Third Thursday. BBQ at Armco Park. • Saturday, September 21. AMBA. See attached flyer and give to anyone you think might be interested. • Friday, September 27. Autumn Golf Classic • Thursday October 3. Zone 28 and 29 meeting at the Double Tree in Pittsburgh. All are invited. • Wednesday, November 13. Save the Date for the 100th Anniversary Celebration of The Rotary Club of Erie with keynote speaker, Ron Burton, Rotary International President. Pledge – Joe L Prayer – Bob Announcements • Brad welcomed everyone, including our guests as above with the inclusion of Karen Pierce who today became a member. Welcome to everyone. • Reg gave an update on the golf outing. We are in need of prizes, please visit any friend/vendors you know in the area that might be willing to sponsor or donate. Also, we are still looking for golfers. • Villagefest is this week end, please sign up to help. The Rotaract Club will be making funnel cakes at the booth right next to ours. • Golf Classic. Please take flyers around. We have 7 or 8 teams and need more sponsors and prizes so any help is appreciated. We will need all information in by Monday, September 23. • AMBA is on the 21st. We will need helpers to sign up from 6 AM – 10 AM. If we do one hour shifts we should be ok. Most people come early. Let your friends and family know about AMBA. It is a good price for labwork, $36 with an ok from your physician. Today’s Program Mariah Seymour and Josh Duman, SRU Rotaract Members Mariah and Josh are both Senior Music Ed Majors at SRU and proud founding members of the campus Rotaract Club who are both from the same hometown of Ebensburg, PA. Since becoming involved in Rotaract, they both agree it has changed their lives and how they feel about helping others and their community. They feel they have become more passionate and thoughtful and seem to be always looking at ways to help others. First, they reviewed the projects of the Rotaract Club which included Dump and Run, Empty Bowls, and Clean Water Project. When they went home for summer break they wanted to become involved so, they attended the Rotary in Ebensburg and got to work. Josh spear headed an effort at the elementary school he works at in Nanty-Glo to renew their classroom gardens which had fallen by the wayside over the past several years. They talked about Highway Cleanup and have made application to clean 173, our current location, so Rotary and Rotaract can work together on this project. They would like to start a Twin club. This would entail finding another Rotaract Club in a different country to look at projects they could team up and work with. They will be discussing this adventure at their meeting this evening. In January, back in Ebensburg, they will be holding a concert to raise funds for a scholarship. Last year they had a concert, with little prep and advertising and they were able to raise $1700 so they feel really good about next years. They have made contact with Ebensburg Rotary and will invite the public. They are known as the JAM (Josh, A.J. (A third Rotaractor from Ebensburg), and Mariah) Trio, to the Rotary back home and because of their enthusiasm and determination, things are really happening. They also want to make contact with the Interact Club at their high school to encourage them to join Rotaract and if there is not an Interact Club, they would like to start one. Upon graduation, they would both like to move to Prague for a year to teach English. They will need $9000 and are asking if we can help in any way. Please see attachment TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) Prague for further information. They both have offered themselves up as Liaisons between the Rotary and Rotaractors. They said they would be starting a Rotaract Blog which we can go to and keep up on what they are doing. They waste no time as their blog was up by the end of the day. If you want to check it out go to: srurotaract.blogspot/ It is so refreshing to listen to Mariah and Josh talk about their Rotary experience and how it has changed the way they look at life and greatly enhanced their desire to help others in any way they can. They are both very energetic and excited about what lies ahead of them and a great encouragement to those in their path. Happy Bucks Hank is happy for the program and Tom Chelgren Todd is happy to welcome our 2 Rotaractors Regina is happy to have visited Brookfield, Ohio’s Rotary Club and brings back a banner. The y have some great fundraising ideas she would also like to entertain. Ken is generally happy. Judy is happy for our 2 Rotaract Guests, our 2 Joe’s, our wonderful club, and all our other guests. Bob is happy for his friend Chris Joe Lofton is happy to see the 2 young people and for the other Joe’s birthday. Joe Marks is happy to report his 84th birthday. Harold is sad to say he will not be able to attend Villagefest, he will be making a visit to see the Vietnam Wall in Grove City where the Old Town Harmony Choir Singers will perform. Art is happy for our two young guests. Walt says, ““Happy Birthday Joe.” Paul is happy for Joe and Joe, our speakers, our new member Karen, and sad to say he will not be her next week as he will be test driving a Tesla. Karen is happy to be here Chris would like to thank Bob for the invitation to visit . Tom Chelgren is happy to thank our club for donating a prize for RYLA, which raised between $4,500 and $5,000 to go towards RYLA next year. He is also please that our club has 4 Paul Harris Society Members and made us aware of the Michael Angelo Caruso Foundation Fundraiser. There are 200 tickets available at $20 each. Tom is from the Punxsutawney Club and is very interested in starting a Rotaract Club at IUP and would love for Mariah and Josh to visit. 4-Way Test – Hank Lunch provided by North Country Brewing. This photo was taken at the Rotaract Meeting on SRU Campus Monday Evening.
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