Our Greeter today was Donna Beach and she 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 Dr. Dan Crane gave a very nice invocation with special mention of John Scott and the Stegura family.
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.A.
GUESTS: Andrea, our Youth Exchange student from Croatia; Marlene Heller, almost a member; Subrina Taylor, guest of the club; Dee Eng, Emmaus RC
Pres Jeanne showed a number of pictures for our review. They were from last week including our Thursday Evening meeting, and volunteering at the Lowhill Township Food Pantry.
P-E Amir Famili presented the club with a RC Banner from Florida that he visited.
PAUL HARRIS FELLOW RECOGNITION AWARDS:
Foundation Chair, Barbara Kistler, had Ronnee Klotz and Amir Famili come forward. She presented Ronnee with a Paul Harris Fellow pin and certificate. Amir received a PHF +1 pin and certificate.
Barb said that since July 1st AW Rotarians have donated over $7,500 toward this year’s $11,500 goal for the RI Annual Fund. The incentive matches continue.
PARKLAND SNACK PACKING is scheduled for TODAY. Check with Gail Micca re timing. A Pizza Party follows.
MINIMUM BREAKFAST CHARGE:
As we do for the Thursday Evening meetings, we will begin having a $5 minimum fee to attend our regular Wednesday morning meetings starting January 2, 2019. Whether we eat or not there still is a cost to have our meeting at Luther Crest.
LOWHILL FOOD PANTRY:
Please remember that the Collection jar is at the registration desk for cash and check contributions.
DEC 27th is THE NEXT THURSDAY EVENING MEETING at 6 PM at Louie’s restaurant.
NO MEETING on December 26th. Happy Holidays.
ALL NEW THURSDAY EVENING MIXER:
January 10th at the Holiday Inn in Breinigsville starting at 5:30 P.M. will be a MIXER meeting for potential AWRC members discussing all things Rotary. Start now to schedule your guests.
TT5 PLANNING COMMITTEE MEETING is on Friday January 18th at the Holiday Inn at 7 a.m. Please remember that giving tickets as Christmas gifts is a good thing.
JANUARY DINING OUT:
January 24, 2019 – Dining Out at Curious Goods 6PM
4-WAY TEST ANNUAL SPEECH CONTEST:
Once again AW Rotarians will conduct a local contest here at a regular Wed. morning meeting. Regionals are mid-April, and the finals are on May 4th at the District Conference.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY:
Dee Eng from the Emmaus RC told us that ERC on January 7th will make two special recognition awards to Rotarian women from ERC, and from Area 1 -- that includes AWRC.
ROTARY LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE (RLI) :
There is a training meeting on March 30th in King of Prussia that many D7430 Rotarians might attend.
CHRISTMAS GIFTS GIVEN:
Pres. Jeanne presented gifts to the two Luther Crest Kitchen staff members that look after us each Wednesday morning. Then Sue Weber presented a gift to Andrea from us for Christmas.
Andrea continues to have a great time here. She now is a member of “Friends for Life, and she has joined the Volley Ball team. Last week she and other Y.E. students went to New York City again.
NEXT MEETING -- Jan 2nd -- Our Greeter will be Chris Blechschmidt. . The program will be Induction of 3 new members, and some quarterly reports from our board members.
Pres. Jeanne introduced our Sgt-at-Arms, Mitch Huston who conducted the drawings and collected Happy Dollars.
The first door prize - a candle donated by Donna Beach - was won by Chuck Ehninger.
A second door prize – a tin of cookies donated by Barb Kistler – was won by Dr. Ihor Fedoriw.
The $40 pot of the 50:50 was not won by Chris Blechschmidts ticket being drawn followed by a white marble. Eight marbles will be around for next week.
HAPPY DOLLARS:
Chris Blechschmidt is happy that he did not scare Andrea this morning. Last week was enough.
Bill Weber thanks Barb Kistler for binging the extra pastries for us this morning.
On behalf of Wendy Weaver, Bill Palmer extended best wishes and a Merry Christmas to us all. She is back in The Villages in FL, and misses us.
Sue Weber is most happy to have Marlene, Andrea, Dee and Subrina here with us today.
Dee Eng is happy to have her son visiting for this week by himself.
Bob Gordon is happy to be here to hear Shawn Fejes give his talk today.
Joe Goll is happy that Peggy and some of the family will be in St. Thomas next week.
Ernie Boll wishes all a MERRY CHRISTMAS.
PROGRAM:
Pres. Jeanne introduced Dr. Bob Gordon to introduce Shawn Fejes who delivered his Classification Talk.
Shawn says he started in the Fitness Industry at age zero, i.e. right after birth by doing sit-ups. While in Middle School he was a wrestler. This experience came with some injuries. One dumb trick he did as a kid was hopping onto a moving freight train and falling off.
After High School Shawn began power lifting and body building. And he studied combat martial arts. And for a year in 2014-15 he operated his own Gym, then closed it. He switched his efforts to going to clients and teaching exercise skills and also learning from them.
Shawn was raised in the Lehigh Valley, has an 18 year old daughter from an early marriage who starts at Kutztown University next year, and has two older brothers. He and wife, Michelle, have had 3 foster children. It was 11 month old baby daughter, Quinn, whom they passed around the AW Holiday Dinner Party to the delight of all. They plan to adopt her officially in March or April.
Shawn said that he entered a Mr. Universe contest with 400 others in Teaneck, NJ. He said he finished last, or close to it.
Shawn answered some questions. Then he thanked us for being his new friends.
CLOSING:
We closed our meeting by reciting the saying “One profits most who serves best.”
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