06/29/2023
Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor
June Calendar – Bob McCrady, Program Chair
June 29: David M. Crawford – Year in review
July Calendar – David M. Crawford, Program Chair
July 6: District Governor, David Uhl plus Warren’s induction and board members
July 10: * Bonus Community Kitchen
July 13: Jenny Rhoades, Visitor’s Bureau
July 20: Dave Roasa, Disaster Aid & Grove City Rotary
July 24: * Community Kitchen
July 27: MaKenzie Love – National Braille reading finalist & Teays Valley Student
*extra events
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- Presiding: President David M. Crawford
- Prayer: Assistant Governor, Jim Rogers
- Piano: Ellery Elick
- Song Leader: Tony Robinson selected “Auld Lang Syne”, “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow”
- Attending: (Drexel has official list) 41 today – Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Poling, Spangler, C.Chamberlain, McCrady, R.Wolfe, Canfield, Wilson, Lambert, Fouts, Palm, McNemar, Robinson, Montgomery, Mavis, T.Tootle, Hedges, Droste, Searls, Schreiner, B.Liggett, Radcliff, Sneed, Horning, Weaver, Foster, Dean, Wolford, Randolph, T.Chamberlain, Davis, Blanton, Brown, Fountain, Lanman, I.Webb, D.Webb, Hooks, Kramer, Rothe
- Visiting Rotarians: From the Rotary Club of Logan, Assistant Governor, Jim Rogers & President-Elect, Tim Woodard; from the Rotary Club of Athens-Noon, President-Elect Nominee Don Wood
- Guests: Harry Canfield’s daughter, Carol accompanied her dad today; Nicole Allen is Ashli’s step-mom
- Scout Troop 52 joined us today
Scholarship Award winner: Ashli Allen has returned to let us know her first year college experience went well and she will be returning to COTC in Wooster to continue her study of sonography. She hopes to work with OB/GYN’s. Best of luck Ashli!
Announcements
- Gary Montgomery thanked, Daryl, Marie, Warren, Bob Sneed, Bob McCrady, Tom Duvall, Tony & Vickie Robinson, John Ellis for help serving over 100 meals at the Community Kitchen
- Charlie Hedges – will be a visiting Rotarian soon when he comes back to see us. Thank you for all your efforts on behalf of this club.
- Summer traveling to other Rotary Clubs? – remember to get your picture in front of their flag and you’ll be entered into a gift card drawing
- Pickaway County Special Olympics Fundraiser – Aug.5th in Chillicothe. Flyers available or see our Facebook page for a link
- Rob Radcliff – CASA raffle. Yeti cooler full of goodies. $10 per ticket. Please get a hold of Rob.
- Rotary Exchange Student, Ana Dutra’s party is July 8th at Jayme Fountain’s home from 1-4pm
- Applications being taken for a two week Romania Rotary Exchange – please let Jayme or Ty know if you are interested in traveling with other Rotarians
SAA: Rob Radcliff
- 27 years married – Patty Rothe
- Drexel has been a member for 46 years
- Bill Stout has been a member for 62 years
- National Body Piercing Day
- 1894 – What day became national holiday – Labor Day
- Rotary : could not allow racial discrimination was part of the by-laws in what year? 1922!
- 1987 women should be allowed per the Supreme Court
Scholarship Drawing: Bob Foster was the winner of $29. The jackpot is $1,549 and it continues!
Program: David M. Crawford – ‘Imagine Rotary’ year 2022-23 recap
- Important projects on both the local and international level have been accomplished
- The Euchre tournament has been added as a scholarship fundraiser
- The new members have jumped into service, organizing our Euchre tournament, adding a Bonus Community Kitchen, led a successful Women’s Products drive (placing third in the district)
- There has not been a dues increase in 24 years (other than adding the Rural/Urban Day lunch cost) – in reviewing the breakdown, $71 goes to Rotary International and $30 goes to the District
- Incoming Presidents are asked to identify their goals for the year
- Membership from 75 has increased to 91
- The 22 new members were sponsored by 17 members – two of whom are new themselves
- Significant donations to local charities and the Miryante Orphanage in Uganda
- Pledged $12,500 over 5 years to Inspiration Station Children’s Museum and Event Space here in Circleville
- Rotary offers a large number of on-line and in person programs for Leadership Development. It would benefit to have more members participate.
- Meeting district leadership is always beneficial to the club, a great avenue is to attend the district assembly and conference April 19 & 20, 2024 at Deer Creek.
- Social Events are important in order to meet Sunrise members, introduce new members to Rotary and plan events (ie. Euchre). We only managed 3. Cost of food is higher and 3-4 members are needed instead of 2.
- Thank you to Bob Foster for updating our website and to all who keep Facebook fresh and informative
- We thank Miles Layton for keeping Circleville Rotary in the newspaper with over 20 articles featured, many on front page
- We accomplished 23 service projects from the community kitchen’s, to sock collection, women’s products, blanket making, addressing thank you card to Honor Flight veteran’s, etc.
- Providing opportunities for all members to participate in a project is important, so with projects during meetings, you don’t have to stand in the Pumpkin Show booth for 3-hours or pick up trash on North Court
- We keep meetings fun and informative
- Interact Club is a casualty of COVID. We are trying to start a club in the Middle school
- Donations to the Rotary Foundation was almost triple my goal. It’s important because district grants are based on our giving level. We are able to augment our donations to Miryante and the Dolly Parton Library.
- Remembrance of the loss of Dick Fullen, spouses and other family members. Thinking about those unable to join us because of health reasons
- Please appreciate the work of your Rotary board members. They work very hard behind the scenes to ensure our club stays financially sound
- I now step aside and Warren takes over next week