Our Greeter today was Amir Famili and he did a marvelous job.
President-elect Amir Famili rang the bell at 7:30 A.M. to open the meeting and welcomed all. Then Herb Klotz gave a very nice invocation.
GUESTS:.
Dave Dries, President Spring Twsp RC; Andrea, our Y.E. student from Croatia; and Gayly Haviland, Andrea’s host.
SAD,SAD NEWS:
DGE Herb Klotz told of the passing of long time Rotarian and dear friend, Joel Masiko on Tuesday morning, June 11. There will be a service on Monday June 17.
P-E Amir began the meeting having the members recite the 4 Way Test, followed with our saying the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. Flag.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
KINGDOM LIFE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED:
Ron Coleman said we need some more volunteers to stock shelves this Friday evening at the Kingdom Life Food Pantry.
UNSUNG HERO AWARD:
P-E Amir highlighted the May 15, 2019 “Unsung Hero” award by the Lehigh County Office of Aging & Adult Services to Bill Palmer. There was applause.
BANNER PRESENTATION:
DGE Herb and Ronnee Klotz visited RCs in Iceland, and in Hamburg, Germany. Herb presented the club with two new banners.
DISTRICT CHANGEOVER:
Monday June 24 is our annual District 7430 Changeover Dinner and Awards at DeSales University. Our own DGE Herb Klotz officially will be transformed into our next District Governor. Let’s all sign up and go.
AWRC ANNUAL CHANGEOVER:
Please attend the Wednesday morning June 26, 2019 regular meeting. P-E Amir Famili will become our new RC President as we thank Jeanne Shipe for her good year of service.
Please send to Jeanne any special pictures you might have from the current Rotary year.
BUDGET PROJECTS REVIEW:
The July 17 and July 24 regular meetings will be used to review the requested project funding for 2019-20.
The project with Second Harvest was done on Saturday June 8. See separate article.
THURSDAY EVENING MEETING:
TOMORROW June 13 at the Holiday Inn at 5:30 P.M. is our next meeting. A Health Check survey will be made.
NEXT MEETING IS June 19 with Ernie Boll as the Greeter. The program is Joseph Hanna discussing “The Role of Lehigh County Sheriff in Our Community.”
P-E Amir introduced our Sgt-at-Arms, Mitch Huston who conducted the drawings and collected Happy Dollars.
The door prize donated by the club was won by Ernie Boll.
The $83 pot of the 50:50 was not won by Sue Weber’s ticket being drawn followed by a white marble. Five marbles remain.
HAPPY DOLLARS:
Sue Weber reminds us that the Camp Neidig BBQ and closing ceremonies are this coming Monday evening, June 17; always a fun event.
Jean Machamer is happy to be here with Andrea.
Ron Coleman is happy to be going to Charleston to see his 5 month old granddaughter.
David Haight is happy to have sold his house in NJ.
Al Lewis is happy that his daughter finished her training. His other daughter said it has rained a lot up in the Adirondacks.
Ernie Boll says he just is happy.
Joe Goll is happy for Peggy who will retire officially in two days. They will head for Delaware and Key West, FL. He also is happy that his daughter-in-law passed her French exam and will work for the State Dept.
John Scott is happy.
Bill Palmer is happy that he received the applause earlier.
Ralph Witcher is happy to report that their fourth child now has graduated High School. And he offered a toast to Andrea.
Herb Klotz was so happy to see Dan Crane this morning that he told Dan’s story about a “long faced” horse in a bar.
PROGRAM:
The program today was our Youth Exchange student, Andrea from Croatia giving her “year-end” talk. Andrea began by reading a thank you letter from her to all AW Rotarians. She exuded happiness and occasional dismay at having to leave us now that the school year is over.
Her letter said that she arrived not knowing anybody and since has made many, many best friends. She also noted that she was now a graduate of the Northwestern High School, and she finished as number 14 out of 194 seniors.
Andrea said that Rotary really does connect the world. She thanked her two host families who made her part of their families. She thanked us for her running in the Purple Pinkie 5K Race, and for the chance to help with Snack Packing. Andrea closed her letter by thanking us “for the inspiration.”
Andrea then showed us pictures of her activities since arriving here last August. She first observed that swimming in the Atlantic ocean is far different from swimming in the Adriatic Sea. Here you do not go too far from the shore.
Andrea met other Y.E. students at the many district monthly Y.E. events. They went to NYC and to Philadelphia. She loves NYC and went back twice more.
Thanksgiving – a U.S. event -- was great. She ate everything in sight. Then she helped out with the interview process for next year’s Outbound students.
Andrea said that being in the Drama Club was an awesome experience. And on her second trip to NYC she saw a Broadway Show. Then she said that Christmas was amazing here. She loves playing “board” games.
In February Andrea went rock climbing, and she was a winner in a “lip sync” contest. And in March she learned how to ski. March 30, 2019 was her 18th birthday. Earlier in March she was in a Volleyball Tournament.
Easter in April was with two other Y.E. students for a truly international dinner. And she loved our Tempting Tastes event. And early in May she attended the annual District Conference in Allentown. In June she had four great days in Niagara Falls.
Next Andrea is going to Camp Neidig and after that to the Beach. This Summer she will tour with a group and visit France, Germany and Spain. When she settles back home she will join a Rotaract Club.
Andrea will leave for home on July 10. She plans to be with us at our meeting that morning.
CLOSING:
P-E Amir closed our meeting by our reciting the saying “One profits most who serves best.”
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