[Dilworthian] Dec. 19 issue

Thu Dec 18 11:19:44 PST 2008

The Dilworthian

(Issues posted at www.charlottedilworthrotary.org)

December 19, 2008

Dilworth Inducts Two New Members

During the past two meetings Charlotte Dilworth South End Rotary Club inducted two new members, Brian Hadley and Ralph Lovejoy.  Background information on Brian is in this issue and background on Ralph will be in the next issue.

Brian's 16-year old son, Kirk, is responsible for him becoming interested in Rotary.  Brian is in Chile on a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship and will return in June.  He and his wife Rebecca also have a 14-year-old daughter, Tory.

David Miller was his sponsor for membership.  Brian is a partner in the Dynamic Marketing Group, a commercial food service and commercial cleaning equipment sales organization.

Brian referees football and wrestling at the high school and middle school levels.
He is a member of Providence United Methodist Church.

His son's Rotary scholarship has him interested in working with our International Service projects.  He also is interested in joining our USO team.  When you see Brian's red badge, please welcome into our club.

DilWorth Noting

Our USO Team Helps Operation Exodus
Each year about a week before Christmas, soldiers going through basic training at Fort Jackson in Columbia go on leave for 14 days in Operation Exodus (this year called Victory Block Leave).  Members of our USO team were among about 50 volunteers who assisted more than 1,300 soldiers coming through the Charlotte Douglas International Airport on their way home for the holidays.  The volunteers started work at 3 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 18, shortly before 28 buses began arriving.

Charlotte's USO was there to help the soldiers find the right ticket counter and get them 

through security so they could have breakfast provided by HMS Host of Charlotte-Douglas International Airport and served by USO volunteers. 

After breakfast, depending on what time their flight departs, they relaxed in the USO Center 

where there are internet stations for checking e-mail, a wide-screen television set, video 

games they could check out, books and magazines to read, sandwiches and drinks, and comfortable lounge chairs for naps.  There also was a wake-up roster so that USO 

volunteers could make certain they didn't nap through their departure time.  There also were 

movies shown throughout the day in the airport auditorium.

USO volunteers and several drill sergeants helped keep the troops organized and got them

 through ticketing and security and to their departure gates on time, whether they left soon 

after arriving in Charlotte or much later in the day. 

To add to the excitement of the day, Al Gardner and Stacey Simms, of WBT Radio, did  their morning show live, outside of the USO, as did Candy and Potter of WLNK from 10:00am to 2:00pm.  Jon Wilson, with Fox News, also did live reports for his station's Fox News Rising 

show live from the airport.  Santa and Mrs. Claus (Charlotte USO volunteers Dave and Nona Jordan) were there to help send them home for the holidays. 

     By the time the troops arrived, the USO Center had hosted more than 148,000 military personnel and their families since it opened September 1, 2006.  On Dec. 18, with an average day's number of military personnel, other guests, and the recruits from Fort Jackson, the Center 

hosted more than 1,500. 

News about Members

Happy Birthday              Happy Anniversary

Rosemary Hill, Dec. 19                Janet and Gary Barret, Dec. 18

Evan Webster, Dec. 25                Vivian and Tom Philson, Dec. 19

Gary Toothman, Dec. 31             Renee and Dewey Jenkins, Dec. 20XXX

Programs

Dec. 19:        Christmas Program

Reminder Of Coming Events 

Jan. 31:  District 7680 Mid-Year Assembly at the Charles Mack Citizens Center in Downtown

             Mooresville. 

Service Opportunities

Weekly at Meetings:

International Projects - 

·                 Participate in the weekly lottery.  Half the proceeds go to benefit our International projects. 

               ·                 CART - Donate your loose change to the Alzheimer's research project by tossing it into the blue bucket at the check-in table.  

Object of Rotary

The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

First:                        The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for 

service;

Second:                   High ethical standards in business and professions; the 

recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying by each Rotarian of his or her occupation as an opportunity to serve society;

Third:                       The application of the ideal of service by every Rotarian to 

his or her personal, business and community life; and

Fourth:                    The advancement of international understanding, good will, 

                              and peace through a world fellowship of business and 

                              professional men and women united in the ideal of service.

Have News for The Dilworthian

Have news for The Dilworthian? Deadline is each Tuesday at 9 p.m. Call Lamar Gunter, 704/442-7838 (office) or 704/525-0569 or fax it to 704/442-9903; or e-mail to Lamar at lgunter at catevo.com, or gunter4283 at bellsouth.net <mailto:gunter4283 at bellsouth.net>   or e-mail him on Charlotte Dilworth South End Rotary's Web site, www.charlottedilworthrotary.org <http://www.charlottedilworthrotary.org/> .  Deadline for items in the reminder Dilworthian on Monday is 9 a.m. Monday.

Dilworth Rotary's Web site is a valuable source of information on committee chairs, upcoming programs and events, projects and other club matters.  Other important Rotary links on the Web are www.rotarydistrict7680.org <http://www.rotarydistrict7680.org/>  and www.rotary.org <http://www.rotary.org/> , the Rotary International Web site. 

Please report changes of e-mail address by using the "contact us" feature on the Charlotte Dilworth South End Rotary Web site.  Please report changes of postal mailing address to Tricia King, assistant secretary-treasurer, thekings at carolina.rr.com <mailto:thekings at carolina.rr.com> , or P. O. Box 471211, Charlotte, NC, 28247-1211.

Make-Up Opportunities

All  makeups should be mailed to Tricia King, Dilworth Rotary, Post Office Box 471211,  Charlotte, NC 28247-1211. Club projects and committee meetings count as make-ups.  All meetings listed below are at 12:30 p.m. unless otherwise indicated.

MONDAY

Charlotte North - Byron's South End, 101 W. Worthington Ave.

Matthews - The Senior Center, 1050 DeVore Lane, Matthews, NC 28105 

Charlotte Top-of-the-Week  -  7:30 a.m., Dunhhill Hotel, 237 North Tryon, uptown.

Charlotte South  -  Zebra Restaurant on Sharon Road in SouthPark. 

TUESDAY

Charlotte - Crowne Plaza, 201 S. McDowell St. 

Charlotte University City  -  7:30 a.m., University Hilton, 8629 J. M. Keynes Dr.

WEDNESDAY

Charlotte West  -  Carolina Golf and Country Club, 2415 Old Steele Creek Rd.

North Mecklenburg - 12:15 p.m.  -  Peninsula Country Club, Hwy 73, W. Jetton Rd., Cornelius

Charlotte SouthPark - 7:30 a.m. Marriott SouthPark Hotel, 2200 Rexford Rd.

THURSDAY

Charlotte East  -  Red Rocks Café, 4223 Providence Rd.  

Lake Norman-Huntersville - 7:30 a.m. NorthStone Country Club, 15801 Northstone Rd.

Waxhaw-Weddington - 7:30 a.m. in Rippington's Restaurant in Waxhaw.

Mint Hill - 7:30 am at Pine Lake Country Club, Mint Hill 

FRIDAY

Mecklenburg  County-South  -  7:30 a.m., Raintree  Country Club, 8600 Raintree Lane

Ballantyne Rotary - City Tavern, Stonecrest

Charlotte University City  -  7:30 a.m., University Hilton, 8629 J. M. Keynes Dr.

WEDNESDAY

Charlotte West  -  Carolina Golf and Country Club, 2415 Old Steele Creek Rd.

North Mecklenburg - 12:15 p.m.  -  Peninsula Country Club, Hwy 73, W. Jetton Rd., Cornelius

Charlotte SouthPark - 7:30 a.m. Marriott SouthPark Hotel, 2200 Rexford Rd.

THURSDAY

Charlotte East  -  Red Rocks Café, 4223 Providence Rd.  

Lake Norman-Huntersville - 7:30 a.m. NorthStone Country Club, 15801 Northstone Rd.

Waxhaw-Weddington - 7:30 a.m. in Rippington's Restaurant in Waxhaw.

Mint Hill - 7:30 am at Pine Lake Country Club, Mint Hill 

FRIDAY

Mecklenburg  County-South  -  7:30 a.m., Raintree  Country Club, 8600 Raintree Lane

Ballantyne Rotary - City Tavern, Stonecrest

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