04/27/2023
Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor
May Calendar – Dave Webb, Program Chair
May 4: Melanoma Awareness Month – Berger OhioHealth
May 11: Tom Davis – Pickaway County Park District
May 18: Dr. Gregory Lam, Cardiologist
May 25: Jarrod Burks, Ohio Valley Archeology, Inc.
June Calendar – Heidi White, Program Chair
June 1 – First Annual Euchre Tournament
June 8 – Ohio Dept of Transportation to talk about electric cars
June 15 – Blessings in a Backpack
June 16 – Golf outing at Pickaway Country Club
June 22 – Trent Patterson – Pathways school
June 29 – David Crawford – Year in review
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- Presiding: President David M. Crawford
- Prayer: Joe Brown
- Piano Player: Esther Fouts is helping us keep it together 🙂
- Song Leader: Jim Hooks selected “Better Than Ever This Year” (without books?!); “Red River Valley”
- Attending: (Drexel has official list) 42 today – Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Spangler, Poling, Beavers, T.Chamberlain, Lanman, Fountain, Radcliff, Reitano, D.Wolfe, Vitartis, Hooks, Robinson, Brown, Routt, B.Tootle, Marosher, Foster, Schreiner, C.Chamberlain, Droste, Wolford, Fouts, Johnson, Wilson, Blanton, B.Liggett, Canfield, Hafey, Horning, Young, K.Neff, T.Tootle, R.Wolfe, McCrady, Riegel, Lambert, Dean, Hedges, McIlroy, Randolph
- Students: Westfall Students introduced by Emily Smith – Brandon and Mackenzie. A month away from graduation!
- Guests: Tony Robinson introduced Darlene Weaver who has applied for membership; Bob McCrady introduced Valerie Crist, and Mr. Donahue; Grant Davis, who will be applying for membership, was introduced by Michele Blanton; Rob Radcliff introduced Dottie even though she was running late : )
New Member: Katie Randolph was welcomed into membership today! She is an account mgr for Green Legacy Greenhouse in Orient. Katie is an outdoor enthusiast and was sponsored by Stacy Young.
Announcements
- Becky Hammond from Sunrise Rotary and PICCA asked for help cleaning up the river bank near Rts. 22/23. Time slots are available May 4, 5, 6th from 10am-1pm or 1pm-4pm. If you can help, contact Wes Ebenhack at [email protected]. Boots/gloves/trash grabbers are recommended. Trash bags/dumpsters will be provided.
- Gary thanked Daryl, Bob McCrady, David & Marie, Warren, John Ellis & Angela for help at the Food Kitchen. We expected 80 and served closer to 100 meals.
- Charlie Hedges presented Paul Harris +2 award to Dave Webb
- Paula Routt – Circleville Food Pantry interim director Bradley P. joined us to accept the over 1800 women’s products collected. The food pantry is open 5 days a week. Women’s products are the most requested items. We were awarded 3rd place out of 59 clubs!
- Rob Radcliff – May 8th, Extra Soup Kitchen. Help is always welcome.
- Rob also announced Program Chairs need information turned in by May 18th
- Dan Fouts – Mayor’s Breakfast on May 11th, 7:30am at the Fairgrounds, is honoring our own Rotarian, Tim Colburn. Please sign up by May 5th.
- Connie Chamberlain – Thank you to the scholarship committee. In June we will be introduced to our 4 winners.
- Tony Chamberlain – June 16th is our golf tournament. Need teams, volunteers and donations.
SAA: Judy Wolford on her last week
- National Library Week
- If you don’t have a library card, pay $1
- Our library has 2 brick and mortar locations
- Ashville location is named : Floyd E. Younkin Branch
- Number of Board Members 7
- Interim Director is Michelle Callahan
- Where is the bookmobile today – Teays Valley West Middle School
Scholarship Drawing: Gary Dean was the winner of $35. The jackpot is $1,236 and it continues!
Program: Kevin T. Donahue – Abe Lincoln
- 158th years ago Abraham Lincoln was assassinated – April 14, 1865 (Good Friday)
- The Arch Street Theatre was where John Wilkes Booth practiced his acting. Drew Barrymore is related to the owners of The Arch Street Theatre owners.
- Booth tried three times to kidnap Lincoln (in early 1865)
- Lincoln never liked security to be around him
- “Our American Cousin” was the British comedy the Lincoln’s were watching at Ford’s Theatre
- Deringer Pistol was used, it is now housed at Ford’s Theatre. 41 caliber bullet was used. To avoid copyright violations, Derringer pistols now have an extra “R”
- One women and 9 men were conspirators to kill many government officials. Booth assigned himself Lincoln.
- All conspirators were tried by a military tribunal. It went on for 7 weeks and had over 360 witnesses.
- Lincoln’s body (with his young son Willie) took a 13 day route back to Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois. The whole Lincoln family is buried there except son, Robert who is buried at Arlington.
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- In appreciation of this year’s speakers sharing their time & efforts, donations to Pickaway Pathways for Success will be made in their names.