9/03/2026
Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor
Sept. 10: Marie Bennett from the Humane Society
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Presiding: President Connie Chamberlain
Greeter: Austin Brooks
Invocation: Brenna Gibson
Piano: Ellery Elick
Song Leader: Tom Duvall “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”, “OSU Fight Song”
Attendees: C.&T. Chamberlain, Lambert, D.Wolfe, Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Elick, Wilson, Fountain, Hooks, Brooks, Searls, Rawlins, Duvall, Gibson, McCrady, R.Wolfe, Hedges, Droste, Logan, Poling, Sneed, B.Liggett, Driesbach, Mavis, Rhodes, Horning, Spangler, G&S Montgomery, Robinson, Brown, Sobolowsky from Gouge, McNemar, Mabe, Justinger, B.Tootle, Wolford
Visiting Rotarians: Craig Klein
Visitors: Jim Hooks brought along his brother Doug Seurkamp
Students of the week: Stephen Wastier from Circleville High School introduced Kaelin Burchett & Kaden Paxton
Club Announcements:
- Action Against Hunger working to fill the Community Cupboards see list of items bring to all the Sept. meetings
- Prepaid Pumpkin Show tickets at the old price $5 – get your tickets before the price increase
- Sept. 27th – 2pm – Bob McCrady has tickets for Tony Ellis fiddle show at Presbyterian church $20/ticket. All money donated to Pickaway County missions
- Sept. 9th: Chamber Business After Hours 4:30-6:30pm – Atomic Credit Union
SAA: Kevin Driesbach
- Birthdays/Anniversaries
- How many states have more Revolutionary soldiers buried than Ohio? 1
- What state? Massachusetts
- How many soldiers are buried in Pickaway County from Revolutionary War? 155
- How many women are on the list of 155? 1
- Age of youngest person on list – buried in Forest Cemetery? 9 years old (carried provisions behind this brothers unit) Abraham Funk
- When did Ohio become state? 1803
- First Capital ? Chillicothe
- Pickaway County established in 1810 – where was first county court? Village of Jefferson at someone’s home before moving to High St.
Scholarship Drawing: This week’s winner Judy Wolford took home $15 and did not get the big bean $267.
Program: Rob Mullins – Trusted Advice
- President-Elect for Washington C.H. Rotary
- 2000 was pharmacist at Rite-Aid here in Circleville
- Ran 260 Rite-Aids in New England and then running western US for Rite-Aid before the corporate structure changed
- Ran 100 mile race for 28 hours around the clock taught him anything is possible
- Trusted Advice is helping develop leaders across the country and internationally
- Works with military clients, OSU business college as examples
- Communication is the foundation of any group – find out what people want so they see the time they are give is worthwhile
- Effective leaders have traits: curiosity, lack of ego, servant leadership, empathy
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In honor of our speaker, we will make a donation to the – Pickaway County Special Olympics