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06/28/2024
Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor
July 11: District Governor Gary Baker
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- Presiding: President Warren Spangler
- Prayer: Gary Montgomery
- Piano: not today – Pledge was recited
- Song Leader: not today
- Attendees: 32 today: Spangler, D.Wolfe, C.Chamberlain, Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Poling, Ankrom, Nickell, Wolford, Brown, D.Webb, Riegel, R.Wolfe, McCrady, I.Webb, K.Neff, McNemar, Duvall, Dean, Fountain, Sneed, Rawlins, G.Montgomery, S.Montgomery, Schreiner, Robinson, White, B.Tootle, Searls, Hooks, Radcliff, Young
- Guests: Kevin Driesbach, Quincy Lowery and her mom, Alice Harker
- Visiting Rotarians: for the last time! Charlie Hedges is comin’ home starting July 11th!!! Rich Elsea from Sunrise.
Announcements:
- Gary Montgomery Community Kitchen – Thank you to Sandy, David & Marie, Bob McCrady, Bob Sneed, Tom Duvall, Daryl Wolfe
- July 11th – changing of the guard and official District Governor visit. No meeting July 4th.
- Kevin Driesbach has been approved by the board for membership and will be inducted at an upcoming meeting!
- Myriante Orphanage sends their thanks for our support per Ty
- Connie Chamberlain introduces us to Quincy Lowery who is one of our scholarship winners. She will be attending Paul Mitchell cosmetology school with plans on going to Columbus State to learn how to start a business and come home to open her own salon. We wish you all the best Quincy.
- On behalf of Circleville Rotary – thank you Alice Harker for all your hard work running the Community Kitchen and serving those in need
- JULY 8th – Bonus Community Kitchen
- Jayme Fountain:
- 125 awards – Ty, Gary M, Jean, Ellery, Bob Sneed, Gary D, Norm, Rick
- PHF +2 Rick and PFH +3 for Marie
- Goal was $6300 to Foundation, to date we contributed $9925 to Foundation + $6,199 to PolioPlus = $16,124 THANK YOU!!!!
- Thank you Warren for the great job this year!! He had the following remarks:
- Encourages all of us to get involved in the District and around the world by attending local and international conferences
- Thank you to board members and all members for a memorable year
- Thank you again to Drexel for serving the club for 45 years
- We remember those influential members we lost in Earl and Harry and think of those unable to attend because of illness
SAA: Rob Radcliff – history of the club
- Tony Robinson actually had two sergeant of arms today! That cost him $1.
- Anniversaries/Birthdays
- National Ice Cream Cake Day
- Past Presidents of Circleville Rotary
- Three Rotarians who help presidential terms longer than 12 months: Tony Chamberlain, David Crawford, Jim River
- Judy Wolford was first female president – how many females? 4
- How many times have we had more than one president during a term: 4
- How many father son presidents – 9!!
Scholarship Drawing: Karlyn Neff won the weekly drawing for $19. Big Bean pot is $981 and will continue.
Program: Steven Conrad – General Mad Anthony Wayne
- Founding Father who was in the Revolutionary War
- Importance with Ohio history because of Treaty of Greenville which started our statehood
- The British Army can “smell the American’s coming” – he created a potion and it had a displeasing scent
- Understood leadership and how to succeed on the battlefield and it is thought was nicknamed “Mad” because of the chances he took
- After the war – went to a plantation in PA, then to Georgia. He turned over his plantation management to his slaves so he could pursue other activities and it did not succeed.
- He turned into politics, but was destroyed by scandal
- Washington asked Wayne to be in control of the army to integrate the Indians into society. Wayne took battles too far.
- Fallen Timbers battle – 1794
- Living descendent – John Wayne in California (living is the key word). He is a DJ and rap musician
- First continental uniform was brown. Blue was influenced by the French.
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In appreciation for the speaker today, a donation will be made to the Foster Care Program of Pickaway County through Jobs and Family Services