[Dilworthian] Dec. 18 issue

[Lamar Gunter]

The Dilworthian

December 18, 2009

William MacDonald to Be Inducted

Into Membership at Dec. 18 Meeting

Secretary Kay May reported that William MacDonald will be inducted into the club at the Dec. 18 meeting.

 

Other excerpts from the Dec. 14 board meeting:

 

Secretary’s Report – 

·         Resignations – none 

·         Leave of Absence –Glenn Hines has requested to be reinstated after the first of the year.  The board approved his reinstatement 

·         Current membership now stands at 64.    

·         Prospective members:  No update this month – prior month prospects included: 

o   Don Haston requested an application – however due to his companies cut back, this is on hold 

o   Phillip Kuhn – guest of Paul Whitfield 

o   Clark Caldwell guest of Jeff Morgart 

o   Tom Atkinson guest of Kay May and our RYE student’s Father

o   Avis Granger, Mary Sherrill are still interested but have had work conflicts lately 

o   Stan Luther and Dale Dorsey have not responded to our follow up

·         November Minutes were approved.

 

Treasurer’s Report – Joy Rucker presented the Dilworth Charities treasurer’s report.   

·         $1,000 was paid from Dilworth Charities to Alto Cayma fund

·         A check for $200 from one of the restaurants was written to Dilworth C that should have been for the Charlotte Dilworth South End Rotary – Kate Richards will follow up with Dewey Jenkins to get this transferred.

·         The treasurer’s report for the Charlotte Dilworth South End Rotary club was not available. 

·         Dale Harrold made a proposal to continue the Member Sponsorship program (meals for members) through the end of March.  The Board approved the continuation of this program.  

 

Old Business / Committee Reports

·         Fund Raising – Kate Richards reported the following:

o   The next fund raising event is scheduled for Feb 26, 2010

o   We will not have a regular meeting that day 

o   The theme is a Beach Party in February

o   Members will be asked to sell tickets to this event which will include

§  Food with a Cash Bar

§  Beach Music with dancing

§  Casino Night

§  Silent Auction

o   Proposal was for the tickets to cover the food, 1 drink and (?) chips for games

o   Kate is working with Extravaganza, referred by Jeff Morgart to assist with the Casino games

o   Price for the tickets TBD

o   Kate will provide a list of roles needed to be filled before and during this event.   This will be shared with the members at an upcoming meeting to get volunteers to assist with this event.

o   Some of the roles include:

§  PRIOR to the event: 

·         Someone to solicit donations for the Silent Auction 

·         Music coordinator

·         Publicity

·         Ticket Sales

·         Casino Games

·         Prizes for Games

§  DURING the event

·         Games coordinators (i.e. Black Jack dealers)

o   Dale Harrold made a motion that the Board approve this concept for our next fundraiser, Joy Rucker seconded the motion and the Board approved it. 

 

·         Membership – Joe Smith 

o    Joe reported that we have had 19 guests since the campaign began.  

o    Paul Whitfield leads with 4 guests

o    Campaign ends Feb 27.   

o    It was suggested that we invite all guests to the Fund Raiser event on Feb 26. 

 

·         Service – Robert Thomas 

o    Robert Thomas reported that he has not heard back from  Garinger High School about establishing an Interact Club.

o    Robert also reported that he and Kay May interviewed two potential Rotary Youth Exchange Students for our club to sponsor as outbound students.

§  Janey Atkinson – Myers Park Student – Kay May is her counselor from our club.   

§  Amit Parikh – Student – Ranjit Rawley is his counselor.    

o    Both were outstanding candidates for this program and were approved to be considered for the next level of approval.  

o    The next step for this is that the Ohio Erie district level RYE selection committee will meet and determine if they are approved.  The students will be notified by the 3rd week in December of their selection status. 

 

·         Adopt-A-Street – David Hodgkins reported that 7 members participated in the East Blvd clean up on Saturday Dec 11.  

o   The group, led by Jeff Morgart included Ed King, David Hodgkins, Romelle Scharnberg, Tom Chaltas, Kay May and Howard Castleman.

·         Salvation Army Bell Ringing – It was noted that we still need volunteers to ring the bell on Saturday Dec 18.

·         Dilworth Quarterly – David Hodgkins shared the latest article he wrote for this publication highlighting the Club’s activities in Peru.  

o   David continues to provide excellent articles for this quarterly publication

·         Nominating Committee – Ranjit Rawlley reported that the club will announce the next year’s proposed officers at the Dec 18 meeting. 

·         David Hodgkins will reorder Dilworth Rotary Coffee mugs to give as gifts for our weekly speakers

·         David Hodgkins made a motion to give Rachael our server from Byron’s Catering a Christmas gift of $100 for her great service this year.   Ranjit Rawlley seconded the motion. The Board approved.  This will be presented to Rachel at the Friday Dec 18 meeting. 

 

The meeting adjourned at 6:15 p.m.

 

Submitted by Kay May; Secretary

·         Next Meeting is scheduled for January 11, 2010 , 5:15p.m. at Self Help Org.  926 Elizabeth Ave. Suite 302.  

 

DilWorth Noting

 

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Jeff Elder did a great job of explaining what the social media Facebook and Twitter are all about and how they are used by individuals and by businesses.  He said that Facebook is a much larger company than Twitter with many more employees.  It also has much smaller profit margin.  He recently was at Stanford University where he was studying social media with a small group of other journalists.

  

News about Members

 

 

Happy Birthday             Happy Anniversary

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

Justin Bice, Dec. 19                                    Vivian and Tom Philson, Dec. 19

Evan Webster, Dec. 25                   Renee and Dewey Jenkins, Dec. 20

Gary Toothman, Dec. 31                Jan and David Kirkpatrick, Dec. 27

Nick Bowen, Jan. 2

 

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Sarah Jane Hodgkins, the fourth grandchild and first granddaughter of David and Donna Hodgkins, was born December 08, 2009 to Michelle and Tim Hodgkins in Raleigh.  She was 6 Lbs. 7 Oz. and 20-1/2” long at birth. 

 

Program

 

Dec. 18        “Thoughts on Christmas” – The Rev. Harold Bales



Coming Events

 


Dec. 25 & Jan. 1 No Meetings

Jan. 14           Board of Directors meets at 5:15 p.m. in the offices of Self-Help, 926 

                        Elizabeth Avenue, Suite 302.  All members are welcome to attend any 

                        board meeting

 

Jan. 30           Mid-Year Assembly – Time and place to be announced.

 

Feb. 13           Rotary Leadership Institute, Mooresville, Courses I, II and III

 

Feb 26            Club Fund Raiser -  “Beach Party in February”

 

Service Opportunities

 

339222417 at 28062007-0F2F

 

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.  

            

Have News for The Dilworthian

  

Have news for The Dilworthian? Deadline is each Tuesday at 9 p.m. Call Lamar Gunter, 704/525-0569 or e-mail to Lamar at gunter4283 at bellsouth.net  

 

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  <http://www.rotarydistrict7680.org/> www.rotarydistrict7680.org and  <http://www.rotary.org/> 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,  <mailto:thekings at carolina.rr.com> 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 at 4521 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 – Piper Glen County Club, 4300 Piper Glen Dr., 

 

 

 

 

 

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