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July 26, 2010: Jack Smith, Superintendent of Schools, Calvert County
Dr. Jack Smith, Sperintendent, Calvert County Schools
Dr. Smith briefied us on recent and pending legislative issues facing the secondary education community. He related the accomplishments of our school system in terms of reaching all types of students in spite of challenging fiscal times.
June 28, 2010: Installation of Officers for the New Rotary Year
At a special meeting at Stovy Brown's house, the club's officers for the year beginning July 1 pledged to uphold their duties and guide the club for the coming year. Assistant Governor Warren Prince administed the oaths of office. Club members provided food and drink for a festive occasion. All members honored outgoing president Jean Gelatka for her extraordinary year.
Warren, Stovy, Paul, Jean, Martha, Mike, Ed, Philip, Dave, and Al.
Gene is missing.
Here is the slate of officers for our club for the Rotary year 2010-11:
President |
Stovy Brown |
President Elect |
Martha Canfield |
Secretary |
Ed Burkhart |
Treasurer |
Mike Hammond |
Sergeant-at-Arms |
Al Schwencer |
Director, Club Service |
Dave Elkinton |
Director, Vocational Service |
Gene Karol |
Director, Community Service |
Philip Yeats |
Director, International Service |
Paul Summers |
Immediate Past President |
Jean Gelatka |
Outgong President, Jean Gelatka, and incoming President, Stovy Brown
Jack Bull, Rotarian from Oslo and founder of ShelterBox Norway, was a special guest at our meeting.
June 14, 2010: Dr. John Peitropaoli
Dr. Peitropaoli awaits the coveted Rotary coffee mug from President Gelatka
Vascular disease is Dr. John Pietrpaoli's specialty. He treats ailments of blood vessels outside the heart itself. These can become blocked with plaque, particulary due to smoking, and cause painful symptoms when muscles become deprived of ozygen. He passed around for all to see many items used in his profession, such as arterial catheters, angioplasty ballons, and stents. We were all amazed at the technology and how it has improved over the past few years.
Dave Elkinton celebrates winning the 1/3 1/3 1/3 jackpot of over $300.
And the skeptics thought the joker was not in the deck!
June 7, 2010: President's Night & Interact Club
Al Schwencer accepts the Rotarian of the Year award from President Jean Gelatka
Club advisor, Anna Price, left, and Club liaison, Martha Canfield, flank three of the new Interact Club officers for 2010-11.
The Interact Club for 2009-10 received the Rotary Presidential Citation, awarded to clubs of excellence in performace, and a District Interact Award for $75, also for execllence. Outgoing Interact President, Kelsey Kreider, received a District $100 award for execllence in leadership.
Kelsey Kreider
President Jean Gelatka gave a summary of many activities and successes of the 2009-10 Rotary club year:
She gave each of the board members a special pin to honor their service throughout the past year. She gave an award to Marsh Damerall and Warren Prince for records of perfect attendance during the year:
May 24, 2010: Perigeaux Vineyards & Winery
Phil and Joyce Pflanschmidt from the Northern Calvert Rotary Club were two of several from that club who joined us for the wine tasting evening.
John Behun, far left, one of the proprietors of Perigeaux Vineyards, explains the delicate art of growing vines and making wine as members of our club enjoy tasting.
Pergigeaux Vineyards & Winery is one of five such businesses now in Calvert County. Our club enjoyed the wine tasting and understanding of the process of making wine. It was a pleasure to see a local enterprise doing such quality work and having such a pleasant result.
May 17. 2010: Scholarship Awards
President Jean Gelatka, Jean Allen, Emily Eerens, Chelsea Kann-Deere, Kelsey Kreider, Rotarian Gene Karol, and Rachel Manning
Vocational Director Gene Karol and our club President, Jean Gelatka presented four scholarship awards:
Emily Berens, Calvert High School and the Calvert Career Center received the first Eddie Allen Vocational Scholarship. Emily will be going to Minnesota State University. Eddie's widow, Jean, was present to present the award.
Chelsea Kann-Deere, Patuxent High School, won the academic scholarship. She will be going to the Univeristy of Maryland.
Kelsey Kreider, Patusent High School and the outgoing president of the Interact Club, won the Brian Albright scholarship given to a student pursuing studies in environmental science. Kelsey will be going to Messiah College in southern Pennsylvania.
Rachel Manning, College of Southern Maryland, will be going to the Univerity of West Virginia to study agicultural science. She plans to return to Calvert County to practice her profession here.
May 10, 2010: Bill Teter, Calvert County Recycling
Bill Teter, Coordinator of Recycling, Calvert County
Bill Teter brought us up to date on the county's recycling program. The county is recycling more types of plastic than in the past. Plans to improve the Lusby facility are about to begin. Material that is not recycled is now going to a land fill in King George, VA.
May 3, 2010: Jim Greer, Loyola Retreat
Jim Greer, who heads the Loyola Retreat along the Potomac River for the Jesuits, spoke to us about servant leadership, a style of bottoms-up leadership that has worked in a number of circumstances for Jim, including a jail in Massachusetts and at Loyola.
April 26, 2010: Club Assembly - District Gold Award
Stovy Brown presents President Jean Gelatka with a banner and plaque honoring our club's receiving a gold award for being one of nine clubs in District 7620 who perfomed in a balanced fashion for this Rotary year. The award was made at the District Conference the preceding weekend. Warren Prince, Paul Summers, and Stovy represented our club at the conference.
April 5, 2010: Jim McNatt, Inflation or Deflation?
Our own Jim McNatt of FMS explains his charts.
Club member, Jim McNatt, gave us a presentation on the conflicting economic factors of our time. Many suggest we are headed for inflation while others point to deflation. The experts are divided, making investment choices difficult.
March 29, 2010: Lt. Randy Stephens, Maryland State Police
Lt. Stephens about to receive the Rotary Four-way Test coffee mug.
Lt. Randolph Stephens, commanding officer of the Prince Frederick Barracks, Maryland State Police, briefed us on how his unit of 40 troopers works with the Calvert County Sheriff's office of 120 deputies. Highlights included a description of how the County Criminal Investigative Team made up of personnel frok both units works together to solve crimes. The modern State Police Crime Lab does almost all of the chemical analysis of evidence for the Sheff's office. The units also cooperate on a new initiative encouraging citizens to turn in unused parts of prescription medicines that are narcotics that can fall into the hands of drug trafficers and users.
March 22, 2010: Four-Way Test Speech Contest
The three speakers from Huntingtown High: Jamie Arthur, Sean Cleary, and Monica Mehta.
Huntingtown High Prinicpal Rick Weber and AP English teacher Amy Gibson flank the speakers.
The topics chosen by the students to work Rotary's Four-Way Test into an interesting speech continue to get better every year. We even learned how it applies to the Olympic Games. The winner, Monica Mehta, used it to emphasize that America needs to get control of obesity in the general population for many health reasons. Amy Gibson contunues to develop her Advvanced Placement English students by bringing the top three from her internal cimpetition at Huntingtown High to our club's speech night. Monica goes on to the District 7620 semi-finals on April 10th at Glen Burnie High School, where four contestants are chosen to attend the finals at the Disgtrict Conference in Gettysberg in late April.
March 15, 2010: Nancy Touchette, Vacinating against Polio in Nigeria
Nancy Touchette receives the speaker's gift, a 4-way Test coffee mug from President Elect Stovy Brown
As a public health official, Nancy Touchette took an opportunity to participate in immunizations in Nigeria for several weeks. Her stories about overcoming the difficulties of clumate, poor infrasturcture, poverty, and lack of understanding by local officials kept us spellbound. It was heartening to hear first-hand how Rotary's Polio Plus program actually works. Nigeria ia one of the four countries in the world where polio is still considered endemic.
March 1, 2010: Tim Hepler, Chesapeake Hills Golf Course.
Tim Hepler receives the "coveted" Rotary coffee mug.
Last year, the County purchased the Chesapeake Hills Golf Club and pledged to improve it. Last fall, the County hired Tim Hepler to be the manager of the facility. Tim's job is to plan, budget, and oversee these improvements to the course and the clubhouse itself. He is well on the way to making the course better and in improving the programs and offerings of the course. Renovating the clubhouse will be in two stages and will begin later this year. Tim has been in golf management all his working life.
February 6, 2010: Past President Jacques Ellison dies.
Addressing our club in March 2001
Jacques Ellison, a long-time member of our club and its president in 1994, passed away a few days ago in Charlottesville, VA, after a battle with leukemia. Jacques and his wife, Ellie, were strong supports of our club and its many activities. About five years ago, they sold their house on Island Creek in St. Leonard and moved to a retirement facility in Charlottesville.
February 1, 2010: Stovy Brown on Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon
Stovy Brown of our club, along with his wife, Anne, gave us a slide show of their trip last fall to the Middle East. Lots of old things preserved by the arid climate were featured.
January 25, 2010: Kristin Biggee, MD, Ophthalmologist
Dr. Biggee receives the Rotary Four-way Test coffee mug from President Jean Gelatka,
Dr. Biggee explained the most frequent problems that develop with our eyes as we age: loss of near focus, cataracts, floaters, glaucoma, and macular degeneration. Most importantly, she went over the early signs of these and the importance of immmediate treatmnet.
January 4, 2010: Eolia Sibila
Eolia Sibila receives the Rotary apeaker's mug from President Jean Gelatka.
Eolia Sibilia, from the Rotary Club of Bladendburg, is the Rotary District 7620 chair of literacy. She has wonderful ideas about how clubs and individuals can help teach those in our communities who cannot read. Even in Maryland, one of the best educated states in the nation, the rate of illiteracy is about 20% and holding.
November 16, 2009: Nominating Committee Report
The club's Nominating Committee reported its slate of officers and directors for the Rotary year 2010-11. These will be voted on at the December 7 meeting and will take effect on July 1, 2010.
President Stovy Brown President Elect Martha Canfield Secretary Ed Burkhart Treasurer Mike Hammond Sergeant-at-Arms Al Schwencer Director, Club Service Dave Elkinton Director, Vocational Service Gene Karol Director, Community Service Philip Yeats Director, International Service Paul Summers Immediate Past President Jean Gelatka
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