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Club News
Weekly Bulletin
WEBSITE: www.stauntonkiwanis.org
Date:
8 March 2010
Opening Ceremonies:
Song: Don Henry; Pledge: Dave Cangalosi; Invocation:
Steve Carpenter
Guests: None
Birthdays:
Wick Vellines
Announcements:
Cristin Sprenger gave an invited
update on life as the mother of twins.
Mike Roman reminded the Board of the meeting on Tuesday, 9 March, at Dave
Didawick’s office.
Don Whiteman called a table meeting of Sponsored Youth Committee and Chuck
Neer called a table meeting of Spiritual Aims Committee.
Richard Moring has had foot surgery, and will be on leave of absence for two
months.
Happy Dollars:
Dick Coleman urged members to attend
the benefit concert for Haiti at Trinity Church on Sunday, 14 March.
http://www.trinitystaunton.org/.
Mal Livick for Cristin’s success in producing potential new members.
Hugh Sproul for a message from his uncle Erskine, who misses our meetings.
Jeff Adams for Duke beating North Carolina at
basketball.
Scott Champion for several things, including
the club.
Kenny Bosserman for a record 350 baseball
signups on the first go-round.
Ray Firehock for the appearance of the top of
his “Keep Off the Grass” sign above the snow.
Ralph Ruedy for finding the January 30th
edition of
The
News Leader as the snow melted.
Marty Schwartz with a geometry joke in honor of
Cristin Sprenger.
Speaker: Dr.
Gordon Bowen,
Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Mary Baldwin
College, on National Security in President Obama’s First Year.
Thought for the week:
A
new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making
them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a
new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
-- Max Planck, father of
quantum physics
Date:
1
March 2010
Opening Ceremonies: Song: Bob Avery;
Pledge: Dave Cangalosi;
Invocation: Bob Atkins
Birthdays:
Charlie Frankfort
Announcements:
Mike Roman told of his trip
with Alan Biskey and Priscilla Stanley to Washington, D.C., for a joint
Kiwanis-CKI convention, in company with two CKI members from Mary Baldwin.
Mike announced that 10 April will the fourth annual worldwide Kiwanis
“One Day” community service event to encourage a day of service by all clubs
in the Kiwanis family. Our
Community Service committee will lead our participation.
Suggestions for projects are welcome.
See Hugh Sproul.
Mike called a table meeting of the Board.
Month-end reports are due.
Mike noted “thank you’s” from Don Whiteman;
Berkeley Glenn Elementary School for the Children’s Art Network; Augusta
Health for Camp Dragonfly; and Linda MacNeil for Valley Symphonic Concerts.
Doug Holroyd distributed refrigerator magnets
with stroke warning signs. He
called a table meeting of Youth Services committee.
Virginia Hurst filled the last slot on her
March readers’ list.
Resignations:
John Glover and Brian Vigilione.
Happy Dollars:
Kenny Bosserman for
tonight’s opening registration for the 65th baseball season;
Priscilla Stanley for the safety of her niece in Chile; Mike Roman for this
weekend’s conference; Bill Surratt for his grandson’s playing baseball from
the youngest level in Kiwanis through high school and now in college; and
Martin Schwartz for one that is too awful to print.
Speaker:
Christopher Glover on a mission trip to the Gambela region of Ethiopia.
Thought for the day:
“Don’t
worry about avoiding temptation...as you grow older, it will avoid you.”
Winston Churchill
Date:
22 February 2010
Opening Ceremonies:
Song: Donald Henry; Pledge: Carl Hensley; Invocation:
Emily Holroyd (Key Club)
Guests:
Hugh Westfall (Shenandoah Valley
Kiwanis Club), Rachel Alexander and Emily Holroyd (Co-presidents, Robert E.
Lee High School Key Club)
Birthdays:
Victor Ludwig, Hugh Sproul
Induction:
Scott Champion, introduced by Andrea Oakes,
inducted by David Didawick, pinned by President Michael Roman.
Announcements:
Rachel Alexander and Emily Holroyd
invited members to a blood drive at Lee High School, sponsored by the Key
Club. They also took donations
for Relay for Life.
Virginia Hurst called for readers for the pre-school program.
Charles Frankfort called a table meeting of the Fundraising Committee.
Happy Dollars:
Howard Strickler for a concert
organized by his grandson that raised money for Haiti relief; Hugh Sproul
for finding his badge; Martin Schwartz for our new member (with a bad pun),
for congressional terminology, and for the 35th Anniversary of
the Pro Bowlers’ Hall of Fame (with a world-class bad pun), David Didawick
for our new member, the club, Hugh Westfall’s pitch to the club, and
remembering Hugh Sproul’s birthday, Douglas Holroyd for our Key Club guests,
and Michael Roman for our new member.
Speaker:
Tanya Brockett, Independent Small Business Funding Consultant, on ways to
support new and existing local small businesses.
Thought for the day:
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has
been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
Abraham Lincoln,
March 15, 1865 Letter to Thurlow Weed
Date:
1 February 2010
Opening Ceremonies:
Song: Robert Avery; Pledge:
Robert Atkins; Invocation:
J. Clifford Fretwell
Guests:
None
Birthdays:
Fitzhugh
Elder, Jr.; Prewitt Scripps, Stephen Jakeman
Announcements:
Reports are now due from reporting
committees.
Ginger Hurst circulated a new signup sheet for preschool readers.
Happy Dollars:
Ginger Hurst for January’s readers;
Mal Livick for Virginia beating North Carolina; Marty Schwartz presenting a
temporal joke.
Speaker:
Joel Black, Janet McAlister, and Heather Dale from Augusta Health (now a
Certified Primary Stroke Center) on detecting and treating strokes.
Time is of the essence.
http://www.strokeassociation.org/
http://www.augustahealth.com/news/augusta-health-receives-american-stroke-association-award
Thought for the day:
"Take away the TV, take away the
video games, set some standards for our children! We need to get our kids
back outside, playing with sticks in the street like I did when I was
little. Expand your mind, go outside and get to see what this world is
like." Caressa Cameron, Miss
America 2010 (Miss Virginia, of Fredricksburg), 30 January 2010
Date:
25 January 2010
Opening Ceremonies:
Song: Robert Avery;
Pledge: John Wooddell;
Invocation: Robert van Oeyen
Guests:
Buena Vista, Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, Waynesboro, and
Shenandoah Kiwanis interclubs, guests of the club, and guests of members.
Announcements:
Thomas Bell noted that this is the 87th
luncheon the club has held in a series now known as Lee-Jackson Day.
The first occasion, in 1923 during the club’s first year, had as
guests Confederate veterans and actual Sons and Daughters of Confederate
veterans.
Speaker:
Dr. J. Holt Merchant, Professor of History, Washington and Lee
University: “Lee and
Leadership”. This is Professor
Merchant’s fourth presentation to the club.
Thoughts for the day:
“After four years
of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of
Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and
resources.” R.E. Lee,
General, Head-Quarters of the Army of Northern Virginia, April 10, 1865
“Save in the defense of my native State, I never desire
again to draw my sword.”
Letter of resignation of Col Robert E. Lee, USA, 20 April 1861
“There is Jackson standing like a stone wall! Rally behind the Virginians!”
Gen. Bernard E. Bee, CSA, at the First Battle of Bull Run
"People who are anxious to bring on war don’t know what
they are bargaining for; they don’t see all the horrors that must accompany
such an event." Thomas J.
Jackson, CSA
REMINDER: MEETING ON 25 JANUARY WILL BE AT FEDERATED AUTO
PARTS BUILDING AND WILL BEGIN AT 12 NOON. Register your guests.
Date:
18 January 2010
Opening Ceremonies: Song: Bob Avery; Pledge:
Dave Cangalosi; Invocation: Bob Atkins
Guests: Kiwanis Club of Winchester Interclub
Birthdays: None
Announcements: Chuck Neer announced that the Christmas tree
will be stripped this Sunday, beginning at 1 PM. All are welcome to
help.
Ginger Hurst asked for one more volunteer for the reading program.
Mike Roman reminded members that the meeting on 25 January for Lee-Jackson
day will be at the Federated Auto Parts building and will begin at noon.
Members bringing guests need to let Tom Bell know.
Mal Livick asked that Board members pick up a copy of the SOP. The new
Executive Director of Kiwanis International is Stan Soderstrom.
The Winchester group presented Interclub Committee chair Bob Atkins with a
key to be returned to Winchester within the month.
Happy Dollars: Ken Bosserman for Teresa Fitzgerald’s having
provided the names of the first six baseball sponsors. Jason for his
first three months of marriage (about a penny a day). Al Biskey for
our speaker. Prewitt Scripps for his new car. Marty Schwartz for
Bob Atkins being a member of a “Key club”.
Dave Didawick for his cousin Mike Didawick in the Winchester group, Darwin
King for Mike Didawick, Mal for Mike Didawick, Earl from Winchester for
forgetting to introduce Mike Didawick.
Ray Firehock for Martin Luther King. Judd Bankert for the anniversary
of President Eisenhower’s speech on the “military-industrial complex”.
Speaker: Bob Kuykendall on Model A Ford automobiles.
Thoughts for the day:
“
Nothing in
the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious
stupidity.”
Martin Luther King
“In the councils of government, we
must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought
or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the
disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never
let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic
processes.” President Dwight David Eisenhower Farewell
Speech, 17 January 1961
Date:
11 January 2010
Opening Ceremonies:
Song: Bob Avery; Pledge:
Jim Cooke; Invocation:
Bernie White
Guests:
None
Birthdays:
Marty Schwartz and John Weatherman
Announcements:
Club Board will meet tomorrow (12 January) at Dave Didawick’s office
at 5:30 PM.
Meeting on 25 January for
Lee-Jackson Day will be at our former location, Federated Auto Parts on
Statler Boulevard. Tom Bell
circulated a list to indicate if you are bringing a guest; the list will
circulate again next week. As is
traditional, that meeting will start at noon.
Happy Dollars:
Jim Patrick for global warming.
Prewitt Scripps for sounds of prayer.
Bruce Elder for not wearing his nametag.
Al Biskey for our speaker.
Marty Schwartz for Pilgrims’ Pride Poultry, fabled (in a way) in song
being sold to a foreign company.
Speaker:
John Reed,
Assistant
Commonwealth's Attorney for Augusta County, on “Child Sexual Abuse”.
Thought for the day:
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stone, so is science made of
facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not
science. Henri Poincare
(1854-1912)
French
mathematician, theoretical
physicist, and
philosopher of science
Date:
4 January 2010
Opening Ceremonies:
Song: Bob Avery; Pledge:
John Wooddell; Invocation:
Howard Strickler
Guests:
None
Birthdays:
John Glover,
Meredith Yeago, Donald Henry, Mixon Darracott
Announcements:
Don Whiteman’s son, Doug, died on 31
December. Arrangements and
remembrances are in the newspaper obituary.
The club will send a card.
The wait staff sent a card of
thanks for our gift to them. Lee
Godfrey sent a note of thanks for our having heard her presentation on the
plan for a new concession stand at the bandstand.
The Salvation Army thanked us for our bell ringing.
The Board will meet on 12
January at David Didawick’s office.
Ginger Hurst explained our
preschool reading program for the year at the four elementary schools, and
circulated a signup sheet.
Happy Dollars:
Doug Holroyd for a win by Ohio State.
Prewitt Scripps for Christmas in Williamsburg with his in-laws (and
his spouse). Cindy Cooke for
having won a trip to Italy. Al
Biskey for our speaker, Joel Salatin.
Marty Schwartz, a paper dollar for Don Whiteman’s definition of a
farmer as “a man outstanding in his field”.
Speaker:
Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms on environmentally friendly farming.
Thought for the
day:
The fight to save family farms isn’t just about farmers.
It’s about making sure that there is a safe and healthy food supply
for all of us. It’s about jobs,
from Main Street to Wall Street.
It’s about a better America.”
Willie Nelson
Note:
There was no meeting on 21 December 2009 due to snow.
Date:
28
December 2009
Opening Ceremonies:
Song: Doris Fretwell; Pledge: Jim Cooke; Invocation:
Bob Atkins
Guests:
None
Birthdays:
Tom
Bell
Announcements:
President Roman announced that
reports are due from reporting committee, including Community Service,
Sponsored Youth, Children Priority One, and Spiritual Aims.
The
Club presented a token of our appreciation for their service to the wait
staff.
Hugh
Sproul called a table meeting of Community Service.
The
Club voted to approve the selection of Mike Roman Priscilla Stanley, and Al
Biskey as delegates to the Mid Winter Conference.
Happy Dollars:
Bob Avery because the year is almost
over. Mike Roman, ditto.
Bob Atkins told a joke about Congress.
Charlie Frankfort for his trip to Western Maryland.
Cliff Fretwell for his daughter’s graduating from nursing school and
now starting work, and for a safe trip thorough the snow.
Marty Schwartz because 2009 is over.
Program:
Several committees reported on their activities and plans.
Hugh Sproul noted that Community Service is emphasizing not only
monetary donations to worthy causes but also actual involvement, such as our
roadside cleaning and bell-ringing for Salvation Army.
Charlie Frankfort tossed out some ideas for new and enhanced fundraising
efforts, including Valentine roses, enlisting the help of the beneficiaries
of our pancake breakfast in selling tickets and (where appropriate)
entertaining, a redo of the Staunton throw sale of years before, a Peanut
Day at a local supermarket, revival of the members’ auction, a 50/50 lottery
at meetings, and disc golf tournaments.
The
Club voted to establish a Disc Golf Committee to explore the best ways of
raising money using the facility, including professional tournaments.
Cindy
Cooke reported fro Sponsored Youth, noting that CKI is particularly
energetic this year and involved in many activities.
The committee is looking into establishing a fourth club, perhaps for
home-schooled youth, elementary youth, or at Aktion club at Virginia School
for the Deaf and Blind. A K-Kids
program at an elementary school could include a BUG (Building Up Grades)
program. Charlie Frankfort
reported on the many activities of the Builders Club at Shelburne.
Bill
Gilliland reported that Public Relations is looking to systematize the
effort, including recruiting someone from the club to write press releases
periodically.
Cliff
Fretwell reported that Membership is working on a number of ideas to recruit
new members, including perhaps a tiered dues system.
Thought for the day:
You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for
getting up.
Rev. Jesse Jackson
Special note number 1:
The next regular meeting (on 21 December) will be held in our current
location on Springhill Road, not at Federated.
Special note number 2:
We will continue to collect money for a Christmas bonus for our
servers on 21 December. Bring
dollars to make them happy.
Date:
14 December 2009
Opening Ceremonies:
Song: Robert Avery; Pledge: John Wooddell; Invocation:
Robert Atkins
Guests:
Maria Schaffer, guest of Mike Roman
Birthdays:
None
Announcements:
Mike Roman announced that the meeting
next Monday will be at Springhill Road, not Federated Auto.
The Board will meet on Wednesday, 16 December, at 5:30 PM at Dave
Didawick’s office. Charlie
Frankfort, Pruitt Scripps, and Bill Gilliland will be reporting for their
committees. The contribution
basket for the servers is going around.
We have received thank-you notes from Valley Alliance for Education
and Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Network for our contributions.
Charlie Frankfort announced
that the Builders’ Club will meet at 2:30 PM this Wednesday at Shelburne.
On the 19th, the Club will go to Brightview/Baldwin Park
to entertain and visit with the residents from 10 AM- noon.
Valley VoTech is selling poinsettias.
Anyone with fundraising ideas should call Charlie before Wednesday.
Richard Moring will call to
remind all bell ringers for the Salvation Army at Kroger’s on 17 December.
All slots are filled.
Cindy Cooke conveyed Cristin
Sprenger’s thanks for the babies’ gift.
Happy Dollars:
Bill Saxman for a badge offense and
for reminders of soup lines.
Judd Bankert for Kiwanis
members who are also Habitat stalwarts (Vince Ennis, Charlie Frankfort, and
Bob van Oeyen).
Nick MacNeil for Shenandoah
Pizza, which is holding a benefit for the Boys and Girls club on Wednesday.
Andrea Oakes for her upcoming
trip to Charlottesville to see the Rockettes with her daughter – and to tell
her that’s what great-grandmother used to be.
Mike Roman for the experience
of attending Builders’ Club, Key Club, and CKI meetings.
(If four members attend, it is an interclub, saith Mal Livick.)
Speaker:
Judy Mosedale, Executive Director of the Staunton Performing Arts
Center on SPAC’s achievements, plans, and potential.
Thought for the
day:
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without
forgetting. --
Anonymous
Final Note: The December 2009 - January 2010 issue of the 8-page, bimonthly
Capital District MiniBuilder is now available online in .pdf format.
Go here: http://www.davidmaloney.com/ebuilder/minibuilder/dec09jan10.pdf
Special note:
We will collect money for a Christmas bonus for our servers on 14 and
21 December. Bring dollars to
make them happy.
Special note number 2:
The regular meeting on 21 December will be held in the Federated Auto
Parts building (our most recent previous home).
Date:
7
December 2009
Opening Ceremonies:
Song: Carl Hensley; Pledge:
Darwin King; Invocation:
Virginia Hurst
Guests:
Lee Godfrey, guest of Nick MacNeil
Birthdays:
None.
Announcements:
Mike Roman announced that the club
board will meet at 5:30 on 8 December in Dave Didawick’s office.
Mike also called attention to a
concealed message on all the tables reminding members we will collect for a
Christmas bonus for our servers on 14 and 21 December.
Mal Livick circulated a club
roster from 1972, when we had 105 members.
Hugh Sproul announced that all
the bell-ringing slots are filled, and invited members to sign up to double
up for companionship.
Andrea Oakes reminded members
to bring a guest in December, each of whom will get a poinsettia.
Happy Dollars:
Dave Didawick for the 18 club members
and the Key Club members who worked the parade this year and for the Kiwanis
Foundation, which got $1400 in pledges after the Foundation Meeting last
week.
Guest Lee Godfrey for the warm
welcome and to encourage support for the Rotary Club project to build a
permanent concession stand at the bandstand in Gypsy Hill Park.
Bruce Grover for a nametag.
Hugh Sproul for a nametag.
Dave Walsh for a nametag.
Dan Bonner for Bruce’s possible
new career as a signpost and for Dave Didawick and the parade.
Judd Bankert, a silent dollar.
Marty Schwartz for discussion
of the Rotary Club’s concession stand project on Pearl Harbor Day.
(Please do not ask the editor for a clarification on this one.)
Speaker:
Wade Luhn on the new Mockingbird Restaurant and Roots Music Venue.
(http://www.mockingbird123.com)
Thought for the
day:
“
…work
more and talk less.” Jose
Mujica, President-elect of Uruguay, 4 December 2009
Special note: We will collect money for a Christmas bonus for our servers
on 14 and 21 December. Bring dollars to make them happy.
Date:
30 November 2009
Opening Ceremonies: Song: Al Biskey; Pledge: Dave Walsh;
Invocation: Nick MacNeil
Birthdays: Doug Holroyd, Duke Bumgardner, B. Meyerhoeffer,
Jim Cooke
Announcements: Mike Roman reminded the club of the
demonstration of the theater renovations at R. E. Lee on Wednesday, 2
December at 7:30. Cindy Cooke circulated an envelope for final
contributions to a babies gift for Cristin Sprenger. Dave Didawick
summarized the drill for that night’s Christmas parade and reminded marshals
that The Pampered Palate would be feeding us afterwards. Hugh Sproul
circulated the sign-up sheet for Salvation Army bell ringing on 17 December.
Happy Dollars: Hugh Sproul manned up for not wearing a
nametag. Al Biskey for Eleanor and Jim Patrick’s 65
th
wedding anniversary. Marty Schwartz for a new stimulus program to benefit
our Christmas parade space markers, “Cash for Chalkers”.
Speaker: Don Bonner, as President of the Board of Directors
of the club’s Kiwanis Foundation, convened a meeting of the Foundation (of
which all club members are automatically members). He summarized the
purposes of the foundation and described its activities, primarily funding
improvements to the facilities for the baseball program and providing a $500
scholarship each year to a Key Club senior. The Foundation currently holds
$22K in restricted baseball funds and $2,500 in unrestricted funds.
Dan reported that the Foundation Board does not think a $500 scholarship is
much of an incentive (or reward), and proposes raising it to a $1,000
scholarship to be given for four years. The primary issue is how to fund
the scholarships, which would over time result in an obligation of $4,000 a
year to the four current recipients.
The Board suggested soliciting member pledges (which are tax deductible)
(pledge cards were distributed); disc golf fundraising tournaments; donation
canister at the hot dog stand; company matches to member donations; and
designating part of the proceeds of the pancake breakfast to support
scholarships.
Discussion ensued.
The Foundation Board will look into the feasibility of funding a more
generous scholarship program.
The Foundation voted to amend the bylaws to regularize the terms of the
current Board of Directors to ensure both continuity and turnover.
Thought for the week: It is not the strongest of the species
that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to
change.
-- Charles Darwin
REMINDER:
NEXT MEETING (30 November) WILL BE A KIWANIS FOUNDATION SPECIAL
MEETING
Date:
23 November 2009
Opening Ceremonies:
Song: Al Biskey; Pledge:
Prewitt Scripps; Invocation:
Ginger Hurst
Guests:
Nick MacNeil brought our 2009
scholarship winner, Mary Cummings, and her mother, Jacque Walters.
Cliff Fretwell brought Jim Driscol.
Bill Gilliland brought Johnny Barr.
Birthdays:
None.
Announcements:
Chuck Neer announced that decoration
of the Christmas tree will be next Sunday, 29 November, at 1 PM in Men’s
Green Thumb Park.
Cindy Cooke took up a
collection for a gift for Cristin Sprenger on the occasion of the birth of
her twin boys on 27 October.
Virginia Hurst called a table
meeting of the Young Children Priority One Committee.
Richard Moring announced that
our bell ringing for the Salvation Army will be on 17 December from 9 AM to
9 PM at Kroger. Signups coming.
Dave Didawick asked for a few
more good Kiwanians and true as marshals for the Christmas Parade next
Monday, 30 November. Key Club
and CKI will also participate.
Andrea Oakes proclaimed a
special membership drive for December, in which each prospective member
attending will receive a poinsettia.
Charlie Frankfort reported that
the Builders’ Club at Shelburne has given part of their proceeds from the
Bike Festival café to purchase Christmas presents for needy children.
Charlie called a table meeting
of the Fundraising Committee.
Mike Roman announced that
members have been invited to Lee High School at 7:30 PM on 2 December for a
demonstration of the renovations to the auditorium to which we contributed.
Refreshments follow.
The meeting on 21 December will
be held at the Federated Auto Parts building.
Happy Dollars:
Bernie White, for Meredith Yeago’s
finding his badge. Mike Roman
for not finding Bernie’s badge.
Chuck Neer for the speaker. Tom
Bell on how Kiwanis was different when he chose it over Rotary.
Doris Fretwell for her trip to Italy.
Hugh Sproul for the Waynesboro Symphony.
Bob Atkins for his early experiences in Kiwanis.
Mal Livick for his 50th anniversary in Kiwanis next week.
Judd Bankert for a nametag violation, for Marty Schwartz, and for “yadda
yadda yadda” entering the English language.
Cliff Fretwell for his guest Jim Driscol, for the speaker, and for
nametags. Marty Schwartz for an
Internet report (http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article14996.html) that part
of the US gold supply is actually tungsten.
Speaker:
Michael Guertler of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes
(http://www.fca.org/).
NEXT MEETING (30 November)
WILL BE A KIWANIS FOUNDATION SPECIAL MEETING.
Thought for the
day:
"Wee ordaine that the day of our
ships arrival at the place assigned for plantacon in the land of Virginia
shall be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to
Almighty God." --
Proclamation of the Virginia settlers who arrived on 4 December 1619 in the
good ship “The Margaret”.
Date:
16 November 2009
Opening Ceremonies:
Song: Al Biskey; Pledge: Bill Surratt; Invocation:
Ray Firehock
Guests: Bruce Elder brought Doug Lane
and Darryl Jones (see below); Cindy Cook brought Jimena Hernandez, CKI
President.
Birthdays:
Bruce Elder
Announcements:
Bruce Elder presented the proceeds from the Pancake Breakfast to
Doug Lane for the Lee High School Band and to Darryl Jones for the Blue
Ridge Area Food Bank’s Backpack Program.
The net profit of $3000 was fueled by a contribution of $500 from
Brian Simpkins on behalf of Kroger Supermarket.
Thank Kroger and Brian the next time you are shopping there.
President Roman announced a $1.00 “Happy Dollar” fine for each member not
wearing a nametag at future lunches.
President Roman thanked Nick MacNeil for overseeing the Frank Pancake
Tribute, and Nick in turn thanked all those who helped, including our
photographers, the speakers, and those who went to Green Thumb Park for the
dedication of the plaque.
We
did not order enough pecans to make up case lots = no pecans this year.
Dave Didawick is recruiting the usual suspects for the Christmas Parade on
30 November. Bank of America
parking lot at 5:30 PM, please.
The club will decorate the Christmas tree on Sunday, 29 November, at Green
Thumb Park. Spiritual Aims
Committee, Key Club, and CKI welcome others to help.
After Christmas, we will need a new location to store the
decorations.
Bob Avery reported for the House Committee that all was in order, and
thanked the members who are doing the monthly stints.
Chuck Neer reported for Spiritual Aims Committee that programs and
activities are well in hand.
John Kuhlmann has resigned from the club.
Happy Dollars:
Jason Hand for Dave Didawick’s praise which “warmed the cockles of
my heart” (http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-coc2.htm);
Dan Bonner for city politics; Jim Patrick for reading the funnies; Bruce
Elder for city politics and for the program today; Cliff Fretwell for the
pancake breakfast, Bruce Elder, Kiwanis, and the city of Staunton; Judd
Bankert for forgetting to acknowledge Cindy Cooke’s role in his becoming
Woodrow Wilson’s doppelganger; Mal Livick for Augusta County politics; Marty
Schwartz for the best way to read the newspaper; Dave Didawick for not
having to cruise during the Christmas parade this year; and Andrea Oakes for
the RX drop-off program’s insights into club members.
Speaker:
Staunton Recreation and Parks Department tag-team presentation by Recreation
Director Jennifer Jones; Superintendent of Parks Steve DeVenny; Golf
Operations Manager Irvin Hoyt, and City Horticulturist Matt Sensabaugh.
(http://www.staunton.va.us/directory/departments-h-z/recreation-parks)
Program for 23 November:
Morris Peltz, Staunton-Augusta Family YMCA.
Thought for the day:
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without
forgetting.
Anon
9 November 2009
Opening Ceremonies:
Song: Alan Biskey; Pledge:
Kenny Bosserman; Invocation:
Steve Carpenter
Guests:
Mrs.
Grace-George Pancake, Mr. Robbins Pancake, Mayor Lacey King, Councilman
Ophie Kier, Justice George M. Cochran and Mrs. Lee Cochran, Mr. Steve
Talley, Dr. James Lott, Mr. William Frazier and Mrs. Kathy Frazier, Mrs.
Margaret Sproul, and Ms. Jimena Hernandez.
Birthdays:
Andrea Oakes
Announcements:
Kiwanis Board meets Tuesday, 10
November 2009, 5:30 PM, Offices of Didawick and Knopp.
Happy Dollars:
Omitted to accommodate program.
Speaker:
Nicholas MacNeil was master of ceremonies for a Tribute to Col. Frank R.
Pancake (1916-2003). Colonel
Pancake flew heavy bombers in the Pacific in World War II, held command
posts in the US Air Force during his 28-year career, was Commandant of
Cadets at VMI, Councilman and Mayor of Staunton, Associate Professor of
Political Science at Mary Baldwin, a founding member of Historic Staunton
Foundation, and President of the Staunton Kiwanis Club – among many other
personal and civic accomplishments.
Reminiscing about Colonel
Pancake were Staunton Mayor Lacey King, Justice George M. Cochran, Mrs. Lee
Cochran, Dr. James Lott, Mr. Bill Frazier and Mrs. Kathy Frazier, Mr. Steve
Talley, Dr. James Cooke, Dr. James Patrick, and Mr. Robert Atkins.
Mr. Robbins Pancake thanked the club.
Following the program, a number of Kiwanians and guests repaired to
Gentlemen’s Green Thumb Park where Mayor King dedicated a plaque honoring
Col Pancake’s donation and decoration of a living Christmas tree for the
City of Staunton. The Club
donated the plaque and a replacement tree (the original one having grown too
huge to decorate).
Thought for the
day:
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the
affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one
life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 November 2009
Opening Ceremonies:
Song: Al Biskey; Pledge: Carl Hensley; Invocation:
Hugh Sproul
Guests;
Lee
High School Key Club officers and advisor;
Jimena Hernandez, CKI President; Krittika Krishnan, CKI Vice-President;
Calvin Bell, by Dan Bonner; Lou Boden, by Judd Bankert
Birthdays:
None
Announcements:
Emily Holroyd, Key Club President,
reviewed Club activities this year and described plans for the rest of the
year. As a concrete example, the
Key Club passed around UNICEF boxes for on-the-spot donations.
Also, a benefit dinner is scheduled at First Presbyterian on 14
November.
PECANS can now be ordered.
See Mal. Or else. Board
will meet on Tuesday, 10 November, at Dave Didiwick’s office. Nick MacNeil
reminded us that 9 November will be the commemoration of the service of
Frank Pancake. A number of
family members are expected to attend as guests, and members will reminisce
about Col. Pancake’s life and service.
Mike Roman plans to have brief
reports from a couple of committees at future regular meetings, starting
with Community Service (Hugh Sproul), House (Bob Avery), and Fundraising
(Charlie Frankfort). Reports
should highlight areas where help is needed.
(These first reports may occur on 23 November.)
Happy Dollars:
Mike Roman for CKI and Key Club
guests; Marty Schwartz for his hero Christopher Columbus (the first
investment banker?); Jim Patrick “in recognition of confusion”.
Speaker;
Ken Bosserman, 2009 Baseball Program Report:
History, The Year 2009, and Looking Forward
(http://www.stauntonkiwanis.org/soap.html)
Thought for the day:
Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn
their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to
sit on their blisters. --Abraham
Lincoln
26 October 2009
Opening Ceremonies:
Song: Don Whiteman; Pledge: Ginger Hurst; Invocation: Bob Atkins
Guests; Sample bags of pecans, which can be ordered next week.
Birthdays: Jon Tsakis, Vince Ennis, George Bellew
Announcements: Charlie Frankfort pointed out that individual
“thank-you” notes for the club T-shirts from members of the Shelburne Middle
School Builders Club are on the tables. At the Bike Festival, the SBC
hosted the reception and ran a café for participants.
Chuck Neer called a meeting of the Spiritual Aims Committee right after
today’s meeting. Nick MacNeil asked that those who want to speak at
the Frank Pancake Appreciation Program on 9 November make their intentions
known.
Mal Livick said pecan orders would be taken next week on the four choices
offered. Eight bucks a bag, with profits going to the club
administrative expenses, keeping dues down. Bob Avery pointed out the
brochures for Staunton’s new arts and cultural zone, the Red Brick District,
on each table. Cindy Cooke announced that Cristin Sprenger’s twins are
almost due, and a collection for a gift will be taken up next week.
Doug Holroyd announced that the Key Club officers will visit next Monday.
Also, on 7 November Augusta Health will host a safe disposal of excess or
expired prescription medicines people may have on hand.
Mike Roman called a board meeting today after the regular meeting.
Cliff Fretwell noted that few persons come to Kiwanis on their own, and that
the proven way to get new members is to invite friends, neighbors,
colleagues, and others to come and get to know us.
Happy Dollars: Bruce Elder for Laurie Smith for her program to
collect expired medicines (see above); Andrea Oakes and Caroline Dull, both
City Council members, for helping with the Sears Hill cleanup day; and for
taking his wife to Eastside as an outdoor outing. Jason Hand for his
marriage in Las Vegas. Doris Fretwell for the onion soup she made from
a Kenny Onion; Marty for the fact that neither of his teams lost, both
having bye weeks; and Ray Firehock for last year’s monthly program chairs,
who did it all.
Speaker; Mr. Elwood Burge, District Ranger, North River Ranger
District, George Washington National Forest.
Thought for the day: Bold knaves thrive without
one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence.
-John Dryden (1631-1700),Constantine the Great, epilogue.
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