Our Greeter today was John Scott, and he did a fabulous job.
President Mike Gschwendtner rang the bell at 7:30 A.M. to open the meeting. Rev. Jeff Kistler gave a very nice invocation.
Pres. Mike began the meeting having the members recite the Five-way Test with the fifth question, “Is it Fun?” We recited the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S.
GUESTS:
PDG Linda Young, Saucon RC; Tim Smith, a returning AW member; David Haight, friend of Al Lewis; Stephanie Fenstermacher, inducted into AW today: our Student of the month, and our Speaker.
Pres. Mike showed pictures of last week’s meeting and the Parkland food pickup.
.LOWHILL FOOD PANTRY:
Please remember that the Collection jar is at the registration desk for cash and check contributions.
TEE-SHIRTS, ETC:
Gail Micca delivered the AWRC Tee Shirts and sweat shirts that we ordered. Thanks, Gail.
STUDENT of the MONTH:
Jaron Crosson from the Lehigh Career and Technical Institute was honored today as the AWRC Student of the month for February. Barbara Kistler conducted the presentation. See separate article. Dr. Tim Rushton endorsed the selection.
NEW MEMBER INDUCTION:
Stephanie Fenstermacher was inducted as our newest AWRC member today, with Herb Klotz leading the ceremony. Barb Kistler is Stephanie’s sponsor. Stephanie is in the Baking business. Welcome, Stephanie !!
AW ROTARIANS RECEIVE RI AWARD:
Linda Young, our 2016-17 District Governor, awarded RI President John Germ’s Presidential Citation, to last year’s AW President Dan Crane. Linda noted that AWRC was one of only five in our 45 RC district to be so honored. She said some nice things about us.
FOUNDATION GALA MARCH 17TH:
AWRC is supporting the annual Foundation Gala fundraiser with a basket of cheer. Members are asked to donate a bottle or two as we have in the past. Pres. Mike will take custody of bottles starting Feb. 14th here at the meeting.
DINING OUT:
TOMORROW is the next Dining Out. It will be a “German Night” at the Stony Run Inn.
SCHEDULE:
President Mike announces upcoming events at our meetings and a list of them appears on our website. A list of the appropriate contact information appears each week in the A-W bulletin.
THURSDAY EVENING MEETING:
March 8th at the Holiday Inn in Breinigsville at 5:30 P.M.
TT 4 MEETING:
The next TT4 project meeting will be at the Holiday Inn on Friday, February 23, starting at 7:30 AM. Gwenn and Gary will be having breakfast there starting at 7 AM. Please join them for breakfast if you can.
Gwenn said that we have 50 tickets sold, BUT we need at least 200 more sold. And we need SPONSORS and Auction items.
NEXT WEEK:
Our Greeter will be Jeff Kistler and the program is Dr Peter Pettit, Religious Studies, Muhlenberg College asking: “Which Came First -- the Holiday or the Egg?”
Pres. Mike introduced S-A-A Mitch Huston who conducted the drawings and collected some “Guilty” dollars.
The Door Prize box of chocolates donated by John Scott was won by Chris Blechschmidt.
The $53 pot of the 50:50 was not won by Halyna Stegura’s ticket. Seven marbles remain.
HAPPY DOLLARS:
Ralph Witcher happily congratulated, Jaron, our Student of the Month.
Halyna Stegura proudly announced that her 27 year old son, Mike, Jr., completed a 24 Marathon race over 117 MILES in Las Vegas last weekend -- and he was FIRST out of 25 runners. His sisters Christina flew in from Puerto Rico, and Mary from Orlando to cheer for Mike.
Christina volunteered in Puerto Rico for 3 weeks.
PDG Linda Young was happy to congratulate AW Rotarians for winning the Presidential Citation.
Al Lewis is happy to be going out to dinner tomorrow, BUT he needs a ride.
Jeanne Shipe loves cross country skiing, and is happy that the U.S. Olympic team did win a gold medal. She noted that she will attend the two day Pres. Elect Training this weekend.
Herb Klotz announced that an interview with him and Chris Blechschmidt has aired on WFMZ. It covered the EWB trip to Africa, but Rotary got mentioned.
Barb Kistler is happy to say that Herb and Chris were superb on TV. Barb also thanks Gary Englehardt for developing an all-new application form for Scholarships.
Gail Micca is happy that she delivered the new shirts, and that her Father-in-law is doing OK.
Wendy Weaver is pleased that her niece continues to improve. Heather now has walked a bit without a walker.
Don Davis who substituted for Mitch last week wants a 10% commission.
Jeff Kistler is happy to celebrate the 43rd birthday of their son.
PROGRAM:
VP Amir Famili introduced Ron Pangrazi from Wacker Chemical with whom he has worked for many years at Air Products. Ron is the Director of Marketing and Technology for “nonwoven” items. His subject was “What is Nonwoven?”
Ron began with a joke that Dan Crane is sure to repeat. It was about a fish that swam into a concrete wall and said “Dam !” Then he told us about nonwovens, which we see, use, walk by and are unaware that they truly are not woven. They look like cloth sometimes.
Nonwovens consist of three things, Fibers + a binder + chemists. Both synthetic (e.g. polyester) and natural (e.g. wood ) fibers are used. The fibers can be laid down mechanically in both wet and dry fashion as is appropriate. A wet example is in making paper.
The binder is a glue, or a resin, or similar agent. One example of nonwoven is baby wipes that are soft and include a lotion. The customer of Wacker sometimes spray on or print on the materials.
Paper towels can be nonwoven and sold as “soft like cloth.” Ron said that the typical car has about 42 different nonwoven material items. These include the trunk lining, for example.
Ron said that Wacker has a facility in Allentown that employs 80 people, but no manufacturing. Their products are made in their plant in Kentucky. Wacker is a German company, and they employ about 17,000 people worldwide.
CLOSING:
We closed the meeting by reciting the saying “One profits most who serves best.”
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