Our Greeter today was Katrina Sundstrom and she did a marvelous job.
President Jeanne Shipe rang the bell at 7:30 A.M. to open the meeting and welcomed all. Then gave a very nice invocation.
GUESTS:.
Just us members today.
Pres. Jeanne 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
NEW AWRC BANNER:
Pres. Jeanne showed a picture of our all-new covered bridge club banner. It now is on our website and our weekly newsletter. There is inventory of banners for exchange purposes when visiting other RCs and districts.
THANK YOU NOTE:
We have received a very nice thank you note from the recipient of the recently awarded Mike Henry scholarship.
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.
ANNUAL DUES VIA CLUBRUNNER:
A few days ago using the ClubRunner software the AWRC dues statements for RY 2019-20 were sent out
. We ask that you each remit by mid-June 2019.
DINING OUT IN JUNE:
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.
The project with Second Harvest now is scheduled for June 8. Please contact Pres. Jeanne if you will be there.
THURSDAY EVENING MEETING:
June 13 is at the Holiday Inn at 5:30 P.M. is our next meeting.
NEXT MEETING IS June 5 with Sue Weber as the Greeter. The program is TBD. Please attend and find out.
Pres. Jeanne introduced our Sgt-at-Arms, Mitch Huston who conducted the drawings and collected Happy Dollars.
The door prize breakfast donated by Katrina Sundstrom was won by Len Salines.
The $59 pot of the 50:50 was not won by Gary Englehardt’s ticket being drawn followed by a white marble. Seven marbles remain.
Thanks to Gwenn and Gary there was second drawing for a prize from Las Vegas which was won by Ralph Witcher.
HAPPY DOLLARS:
Al Lewis reports that his daughter was in the Adirondacks last week and that there is just as much rainfall there as here.
Ralph Witcher declared his love for Mitch Huston with an embrace.
Jeanne Shipe is most happy that she attended the “Taps Over Bethlehem” event and then the parade. Mitch Huston said that this year there were 41 separate buglers performing.
Katrina Sundstrom is happy that in one or two weeks they will be opening the “Parkland Cares” Food Pantry for clients on a two times a week cycle.
Ron Coleman said he was sorry about something.
Joe Goll notes that there is a house in Green Valley now up for sale.
Marleen Heller is happy that her Grandmother is celebrating her 98th birthday.
PROGRAM:
The program today was a special Health Check discussion with Gwenn Carr and gary Englehardt as facilitators. P-E Amir began by explaining that while attending Presidents-Elect training, this review process was explained and recommended by RI. Amir is pleased that Gwenn and Gary agreed to facilitate these reviews.
Gary explained that we will be discussing the Rotary Health Check to understand any gaps we may have in our club and pat ourselves on the back for our many accomplishments. Indeed it was not painful and we had the opportunity to work with other club members to enhance our club offerings.
The Rotary Health Check is a standard list of questions used by Rotary clubs to improve the following areas:
Club Image
Membership
Club Experience
Business and Operations
Service and Socials
We began first by looking at our Club Experience. A list of characteristics of a Rotary club was distributed at each table, and a scribe was appointed to record the findings.
Questions included whether we look forward to coming to meetings; how are our club programs; we have a Greeter; we each change our seats weekly at meetings, etc.
The scribe at each table told the group their table’s opinions. Then for the not-quite satisfactory opinions each table was asked to discuss possible remedies for improvement. The scribes then explained those ideas to the group.
The results will not be described here until after the Thursday June 13th evening meeting results can be included.
The discussions went well and some good suggestions resulted. Thank Yous go to Gwenn and gary.
CLOSING:
Pres. Jeanne closed our meeting by our reciting the saying “One profits most who serves best.”
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