Our Greeter today was Bill Palmer, and he did a marvelous job.
President Jeanne Shipe rang the bell at 7:30 A.M. to open the meeting and welcomed all to AWRC. Then Ron Coleman gave a very nice invocation
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.
GUESTS:
Dave Dries, President, Spring Township RC; Andrea, our Youth Exchange student from Croatia; and Becky DeHaviland, Andrea’s host.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
SHELTERBOX CHALLENGE:
For every dollar donated to the purchase of ShelterBoxes by April 19th, 2019 a member has committed to match them, at least until the donated total exceeds $1,000 and TWO ShelterBoxes can be purchased. Interact clubs are included.
Please give your checks Payable to the “Allentown West Rotary Foundation” to Treasurer Chris Blechschmidt, or President Jeanne.
Pres. Jeanne reminds us of the very busy April schedule that we have. See her April 2nd e-mail.
DISTRICT CONFERENCE 2019:
At Pres. Jeanne’s request, Dave Dries explained the many benefits of attending a Rotary District Conference. Networking with Rotarians from our 44 other clubs, along with their fellowship, is great.
The conference offers a single day option for Saturday. And that includes the finals of the Four Way TEST Speech Contest.
DISTRICT GRANT:
Pres. Jeanne noted that AWRC along with the other Area 1 RCs is participating in a District Grant with the Second Harvest people for an organic vegetable garden. We need FOUR AW Volunteers to work on Saturday April 20th from 9 A.M. to Noon in Nazareth. Please tell Jeanne Shipe if you will help.
AWRC BANNERS ARE ABOUT TO GO INTO INVENTORY.
OTHER PLANS:
May 8th will be a DESTINATION meeting at LCCC and scholarships will be awarded.
May 15th will be an Open House Mixer meeting here at Luther Crest.
TT5:
April 28, Sunday at the Holiday Inn 4 to 7 P.M. Buy Tickets NOW.
Pres. Jeanne again asks that we please donate items for the always popular Basket of Cheer that will be raffled off at TT5.
P-E Amir Famili reported that so far there are only 115 people registered for TT5. FOLKS, WE NEED 250+++ PLEASE BUY AND SELL TICKETS NOW.
TT5 AUCTION ITEM PREVIEW: See separate article.
THURSDAY EVENING MEETINGS:
The next one is TOMORROW, April 11th at the Holiday Inn at 5:30 P.M. We will be discussing plans for the next Thursday meetings.
ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS FUNDRAISER:
Is at DeSales University on Sunday April 7th from 4 to 7 PM.
NEXT MEETING IS April 17. Our Greeter will be Geoff Legg and our program will be Gwenn Carr with a TT5 update. And Rev. Jeff Kistler will honor the Student of the Month from LCTI.
Pres. Jeanne introduced our Sgt-at-Arms, Mitch Huston who conducted the drawings and collected Happy Dollars.
The door prize $10 donated by Bill Palmer was won by Chris Blechschmidt .
The $121 pot of the 50:50 was WON by Ron Coleman’s ticket being drawn followed by the BLACK marble. A full bag of marbles will be used again next time.
HAPPY DOLLARS:
Al Lewis was back with us today, and he is happy to report that his daughter now has a teaching position again.
Halyna Stegura is happy to report that her 28 year old son, Michael, came in first place in his age bracket running 100 MILES in an Ultra Marathon in South Carolina.
Halyna also is happy to be going on a cruise soon that goes to Abu Dhabi and into the Med.
Ralph Witcher is happy that son, Seth, will be performing at the Velodrome opening event.
Joe Goll is happy that his son spent 6 days in Paris recently/
Bill Palmer is happy that UVA was the winner of “March Madness.” And he is happy that John Scott so far has lost 92 lbs.!!
Ron Coleman welcomes the Spring weather. And he is waiting for word from Johns Hopkins regarding his son being accepted into Med. School.
Geoff Legg congratulates John Scott on his new look.
Bill Weber is happy to be back after 3 months in Hilton Head. Sue and he attended the District 7770 conference there. It started with 300 people at a luncheon on Friday noon. The atmosphere was wonderful and they were welcomed by all. He told us all to go to our May 3 to 5 District Conference in Allentown.
Sue Weber is happy to have Andrea with us today, and host Becky too. She confirmed that in the Fall we will begin hosting a young lady from Denmark as our YE student.
Andrea is having her 18th birthday, so we sang to her.
PROGRAM:
Our program today was our Board Member, John Scott, leading us through a Strategic Planning process to come up with action items to take us to our goals going forward.
John distributed S.W.O.T. analysis work sheets and asked each table of members to discuss issues for whatever parts we wanted to cover. The initials stand for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.
John read some answers to us after we were done. Our input will be part of the final plan being put together by the board.
CLOSING:
Pres. Jeanne had us recite the 4 Way test, And we closed our meeting by reciting the saying “One profits most who serves best.”
