Our Greeter today was Ron Coleman and he did a marvelous job.
President Mike Gschwendtner rang the bell at 7:30 A.M. to open the meeting. Herb Klotz 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 flag of the U.S.
GUESTS:
DGE Cindy Hornaman, Emmaus RC; Dave Dries, Spring Township RC; Vern Shade, Bethlehem RC; and Phil Bertolino, LCTI. Academic Principal. And Scott Hoch from our Thursday Evening group joined us.
Pres. Mike showed photographs from our last meeting including Herb Klotz with arms raised as he runs for the finish line at the 5K on Oct. 14th. Pics also were Rotarians eating breakfast and just talking. And there was a pic of Dr. Bob Gordon introducing Dr. Amanda Sellers.
PURPLE PINKIE 5k RACE RESULTS:
Herb Klotz reports that the proceeds now are over $30,000 and still growing.
LOWHILL FOOD PANTRY:
Please remember that the Collection jar is at the registration desk for cash and check contributions.
HURRICANE RELIEF OPPORTUNITY:
Pres. Mike reminds us that for every $5,000 increment of funds donated to ShelterBox USA by D7430 Rotarians -- Rotary Clubs -- Interact Clubs -- another ShelterBox will be donated from the District funds. This incentive offer is open to December 1, 2017 and is limited to 5 ShelterBoxes by the district.
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:
TOMORROW, October 26th is a Happy Hour and Business meeting at the Holiday Inn starting at 5:30 P.M. Ronnee and Herb Klotz will talk about last weekend’s Zone Institute experiences.
DICTIONARY PROJECT 2017:
Amir Famili, Chair, said that the volunteers met on Sunday in his house and in less than an hour they labeled and packed up all 1,000 dictionaries. Amir extends special thanks to Dorothy Bloom who brought Rick and the whole neighborhood to help. He presented Dottie with a Japanese Wind Chime as a thank you gift.
STUDENT of the MONTH:
Barbara Kistler introduced Pedro Ortiz, our October Student of the Month, his parents, Jessica and Oscar, and Phil Bertolino from LCTI. See separate article.
DINING OUT -- OCTOBER 27th:
Please sign up to dine at Lily’s Sushi Grill-Seafood-Bar restaurant on Friday, October 27th, 6:00 PM, at 1908 Walbert Ave. Allentown 18104.
Ronnee noted that the next Dining Out will be in January, and possibly will be on a Thursday.
MEMBERSHIP MINUTE:
We all need to look for people who want to serve others, and actively pursue candidates for membership, starting with the Nov. 2nd Networking Mixer at Wegman’s. The meeting place is next to the Pub.
So far we have 11 signed up; we need a lot more to make this a winner.
Nov. 4th Saturday is the D7430 Foundation Seminar at MONTCO CC in Blue Bell. Sign up on line.
Nov. 7th, Tuesday, is our day to volunteer for Meals on Wheels. Dorothy Bloom passed around a signup sheet. If you do sign up, it is important that you also show up. They count on us each time.
Nov. 10th, Friday evening is volunteer work at Kingdom Life Food Pantry to install new shelves. Jean Masiko is asking for 8 volunteers to make this go quickly. Start time is 5:30 P.M. and please try to bring tools such as hammers, screw drivers, etc. Chris Blechschmidt is the Project Manager.
FOUR WAY TEST SPEECH CONTEST:
Gwen Pongracz will lead this effort this year and Ginny Sandoval will serve on the committee. They need some folks to take the story to the area schools seeking students to compete. The event may be held at one of our Wed. a.m. regular meetings.
ELECTION OF AWRC OFFICERS:
Dan Crane said that a slate of proposed officers for the RY 2018-19 will be presented on Nov. 8th, and elections will be held during our December 13thAnnual meeting.
AWRC’s FACEBOOK PAGE:
John Scott and Brian Peterka have been updating the AWRC Facebook page to try to promote non-members to get involved. Please check it out, “Like” and “Share” it.
.NEXT WEEK:
Our Greeter will be Joe Goll and the program will be A-W Member Amir Famili -- What Do You Know About Shiraz?
Pres. Mike introduced our S-a-A Mitch Huston -- his time to shine -- who conducted the raffle drawings.
The door prize was donated by Ron Coleman and it was won by Ray Stock.
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The $50 pot of the 50:50 was not won by Bob Gordon’s ticket. 7 marbles remain.
HAPPY DOLLARS:
Joe and Peggy Goll visited with their son and daughter-in-law in NYC who were back from Greece, and it was very enjoyable.
Wendy Weaver, who claims to be just over 21, has been attending Penn State football games for 50 years. Last weekend’s game was the best ever.
Bob Gordon is happy that next week he is traveling to Brussels to give a keynote speech. It is now 30 years since his very first talk for the same group.
Bob Gordon then announced that TODAY Bill Palmer happily celebrates his 83rd birthday. We sang a good rendition of Happy Birthday.
Herb Klotz is happy to report that he and Ronnee had an enjoyable and productive series of meetings and training at the Zone 32 Institute in Hartford, CT all of last week.
Herb also is happy about the Purple Pinkie funds raised exceeding $30,000.
DGE Cindy Hornaman is happy to be visiting AWRC again.
Ralph Witcher once again is “Great.” And he paid a dollar for not having a Rotary pin on.
Ralph reminds us that this Thursday and Friday evenings at Lehigh University’s Zoellner Center will be the 200 voices, counting his and his son’s, starting at 8 PM.
Ray Stock is happy for the members that did snack packs last week, including Interact students and community volunteers.
Jeff Kistler announced that on election day Nov 7th there will be an equipment and antique auction at the Kistler Farm starting at 9 A.M.
Amir Famili is glad that Chris Hornaman is here today. They have known each other for 30 years through working at Air Products.
Chris Hornaman is glad to see Amir also.
Jeanne Shipe noted that Mitch Huston’s picture in last week’s bulletin was not kind to his recent nose surgery.
PROGRAM:
Our program today was Chris Hornaman all about Africa--Another World. Chris’ wife Cindy was here for support and added some stories too.
Chris began by asking who in the room has been to Africa. A few hands went up. Then he asked if we knew the meaning of the word “Safari.” In Swahili it means “Journey.”
Chris points out that Africa is very large. The entire U.S. would fit into the Sahara Desert. Africa is a continent, not a country. It is made up of 51 individual countries plus 10 territories.
Chris and Cindy have traveled through various African countries thirteen times so far. Chris is a highly skilled photographer and brought with him many slides and a video of his numerous pictures taken on these trips.
The video was a real treat with many animals and the sounds that they make. Birds were included as well as a photo of a Pigmy woman. Africa has over 1100 animal types, more fish types, and hundreds of thousands of insect types.
Chris told the story from 5 years ago when they were on a walking tour there was a lion that crossed the road in front of them and took a perch on higher ground, As a group of water buffalo approached the lion with four others attacked and caught a buffalo calf. Then the carcass was given to two lion cubs. There was a large male Water Buffalo who was not real happy, and he caught one lion on his horns and tossed it a few yards away. Chris and Cindy witnessed it all.
While in Uganda they saw a number of Gorillas. Chris showed us a series of slides of many different animals. And as they traveled they saw evidence of Rotary clubs and Rotary projects like mosquito nets in many places. And they saw many cultural differences including great poverty and some wealth.
Chris showed pictures of a clinic in a village outside the entrance to a National Park. It was quite bare of equipment and doctors. Later he showed pictures of a clinic on an island in northern Zambia that was a hut with a bucket.
In November 2007 they came across an elephant that had just given birth and the umbilical cord still was attached. Once the baby stands -- in about 20 minutes, the Mother leaves the placenta for the vultures and taken the baby to safety.
Chris also casually mentioned that he once was charged by an elephant who came within 10 yards of him. It stopped when the guide fired a rifle into the ground.
The pictures were great, as were the stories. Thanks, Chris.
CLOSING:
We closed the meeting by reciting the saying “One profits most who serves best.”
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