Our Greeter today was Donna Beach and she did a marvelous job -- even handing out our badges.
President Mike Gschwendtner rang the bell at 7:30 A.M. to open the meeting. Chuck Ehninger gave a very nice invocation with special mention of Don Davis.
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:
Bob Hoffman, our Speaker.
And Shirley Randall was with us, and the Webers are back from Hilton Head.
Pres. Mike showed pictures starting with Saturday’s Rodale Park mulching work. Then we saw Northwestern Snack Packing and then the Thursday evening meeting at the Weathered Winery.
LOWHILL FOOD PANTRY:
Please remember that the Collection jar is at the registration desk for cash and check contributions.
Once again Amir Famili is asking for help on Saturday.
NEW MEMBER INDUCTION:
Hal Warner was inducted into the AWRC in a ceremony conducted by Chuck Ehninger. Hal is sponsored by Herb Klotz Welcome, Hal.
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.
RODALE PARK IS MULCHED.
Dan Crane reported that there was a small work crew and that they did a fine job spreading the mulch -- and eating donuts.
SAVE THE DATE:
DGN Herb Klotz said now is the time to put the dates of April 24 to 26 2020 on our calendars. That is when Herb’s district conference is schooled for the Valley Forge Casino Resort.
Herb asks that members interested in helping please let him know.
NEWTOEKING EVENTS:
DGN Herb and some others are planning to attend some of the Chamber of Commerce Networking Mixers starting in June. Other members are urged to attend also.
THURSDAY EVENING MEETINGS:
June 14th is the next evening meeting, and it is at the Holiday Inn in Breinigsville starting at 5:30 P.M.
DINING OUT for JUNE:
Friday June 29th is Dining Out at the Shanty Restaurant in Allentown at 6:00 P.M. There is a sign-up sheet.
NEXT WEEK:
Our Greeter will be Dorothy Bloom. And our program will be Allen Childs, Doylestown Rotary Club discussing our joint Global Grants.
Pres. Mike introduced S-A-A Mitch Huston who conducted the drawings and collected some “Guilty” dollars.
The door prize of a large special glass with a candle donated by Donna Beach was won by Bill Palmer.
The drawing for the $72 pot of the 50:50 was quite an event. S-a-A Mitch specifically asked Ron Coleman to verify the presence of the black marble. Last week Ron lamented that he never had been asked.
Then Sue Weber’s ticket was drawn, and Sue made a big show of groping for the marble. She came out with TWO -- a black one and a white one! Much amazement and laughter followed, and got even louder when Ron told us that he gave Sue a black marble to use today. We need more security, or a ban on Ron working with his marbles.
Sue’s ticket did NOT win the money. Five marbles remain.
HAPPY DOLLARS:
Sue Weber says she and Bill are happy to be back in the Lehigh Valley.
Bill Palmer is happy to learn that both his granddaughter Shaina, and grandson Nate were winners playing Black Jack at a casino the other day.
Halyna Stegura reports that Wendy Weaver has escaped most of the Tropical storm Alberto’s damaging work.
Halyna also happily reported that today her shoes do match one another.
Dan Crane told us about the 10 family members going to the Carmel Kitchen on Mother’s Day, and having the owners paying their bill. Two days later the CK closed.
Herb Klotz reports that member Diana Dunn has beard from our contact at the Centennial School in Sierra Leone, that she has been elected as a member of Parliament.
Herb also said he and Ronnee just returned from time spent with their Carolina grandkids.
PROGRAM:
VP Amir Famili introduced our program today -- Robert Hoffman, Senior Principal Research Associate, Air Products speaking about Polyurethane Foam. Bob is a 1989 graduate of Villanova with a degree in Physics. He started then with Air Products and still is there. His last 17 years involved working with Polyurethane Foam.
Using a series of text and photo slides, Bob discussed both soft (Comfort) foam uses and Rigid foam uses. Soft foam applications include seat cushions, auto seat bottoms and backs, and mattresses.
Bob’s work mostly is with Rigid foam applications. Three big examples are structural (buildings) insulation, refrigerator walls, and water heater tank linings. The spraying of foams provides a superior way to fill all the “nooks and crannies” in building exterior wall spaces. Fiberglass bats tend to leave some draft spaces.
Bob said that some 4.5 BILLION pounds of foam products are used each year in the U.S. Bob described how the chemicals and catalysts are mixed and within 15 seconds to two minutes the foam is created. He showed pictures of carousel production lines that form parts such as auto seats.
Bob mentioned that NASA was working with “Memory” foam and resulted in Tempurpedic foam mattresses. He loves his.
In the insulation business there is a measurement called the “R” value that indicates the ability to reduce heat transfer. The fiberglass bats have an “R” value of 2.5 per inch thick. The Polyurethane spray foam is 6 to 7 per inch.
Bob took some questions and received a round of applause.
CLOSING:
We closed our meeting by reciting the saying “One profits most who serves best.”
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