Our Greeter today was Dale Heffner and he did a marvelous job.
President Amir Famili rang the bell at 7:30 A.M. opening the meeting and welcomed all. Then Ralph Witcher gave a very nice invocation expressing an “Attitude of Gratitude.”
Secretary John Scott began the meeting by having the members recite The Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. Flag. Then he led us in reciting the Four Way Test. John then reviewed upcoming events.
GUESTS:
Maria Tan, Junior at DeSales University, guest of the club; Pat Witcher, wife of Ralph.
OUR APRIL 24-26 DISRICT CONFERENCE:
John Scott noted that we now have 17 members registered for the conference. More still are needed.
DG Herb Klotz asks us all to attend next Wednesday’s meeting here. The program will be a review of Conference volunteer locations and times.
HIGHWAY CLEANUP IS COMING:
Project Chair, Gail Micca, says It's looking like the date with be Saturday morning, April 4th. Please check your calendars and let her know if you can make it.
LEARN ABOUT ROTARY:
The Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI) offers many levels of Rotary education. AWRC will reimburse the registration fee to members that attend the Saturday, March 28 session at DeSales University.
These courses are most worthwhile, especially to our newer members.
PARKLAND C.A.R.E.S. FUNDRAISER:
Please support the March 28th fundraiser.
ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS:
April 5th is the EWB annual fundraiser at DeSales University. Many AW Rotarians support EWB and attend this event.
LOWHILL FOOD PANTRY:
This great group still depends on cash donations from AW Rotarians. And volunteering for the produce pick-up and distribution on Saturday mornings is a very satisfying thing.
THURSDAY EVENING SCHEDULE:
March 12 -- The meeting will be held at the Starlite Diner starting at 5:30 P.M.
NEXT MORNING MEETING:
March 11th at Luther Crest with a volunteer as our Greeter. DG Herb Klotz will be reviewing the activities schedule for the Volunteers for OUR District Conference in King of Prussia April 24 thru 26. Please attend and join up.
Pres. Amir introduced Sgt.-at-Arms Mitch Huston who conducted the drawings and collected Happy Dollars.
The door prize bottle of a Liquor donated by Dale Heffner was won by Dan Crane.
The $88 pot of the 50:50 was not won by Dan Crane’s second ticket being drawn followed by a white marble. FIVE marbles will be back next time.
HAPPY DOLLARS:
Herb Klotz and Ronnee are very happy about Ronnee’s improving health.
Marlene Heller is happy to report that she and Gary had a great, wonderful, fabulous trip for 12 days in Israel. Gary took over 1,200 pictures.
Dottie Bloom is happy for Geoff Legg for doing her a favor.
Dennis Houser is happy that he is going to Alabama on a mission trip for his church.
Dale Heffner was happy to note that today we had our orders: “March 4th.”
Ernie Boll still is happy.
Ralph Witcher is happy to report that last weekend he attended Presidents-Elect Training and it was very worthwhile.
Jeanne Shipe is happy for the many AWRC volunteers we have. She put a list on each table, along with today’s ballot.
Mitch Huston is happy to be going to Portsmouth, N.H. to get a lobster fix.
FUNDING REQUEST:
President Amir introduced Maria Tan, a Junior at DeSales University. Maria is seeking funding for her upcoming trip to South Africa. The second of the two weeks in So. Africa will be spent working with Habitat for Humanity building things. She has submitted a form requesting financial assistance. Amir noted that AWRC has supported these students in the past.
PROGRAM:
The program today was the Nominations and election of Officers for RY 2020-21. Past President Jeanne Shipe conducted a good discussion about the ballot that had some blank spaces for President-elect and for Vice President.
Jeanne noted that the total chores of our RC President have expanded in recent years and take more time. Dan Crane compared his first time as our President as a new member to the recent year second time. He said that Donna Beach did a lot of the work supporting him.
Geoff Legg said that when he was _President his secretary in his office did a lot of the support work.
Bill Palmer suggested we ask Keith Hoffman, a CPA, to take on the Treasurer’s job so that Chris Blechschmidt could be our VP.
Herb Klotz said that whomever we have going forward will have his support to carry some of the load.
In the end, Gail Micca agreed to be our new President-Elect to follow Ralph. And John Scott agreed to be our new VP. A show of hands approved the new slate of officers.
CLOSING:
Pres. Amir closed our meeting by our reciting the saying “One profits most who serves best.”
Photos by Marlene Heller
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