President Wayne Hodges opened the meeting with the Pledge of Allegience, then we sang God Bless America, and recited the modified Four Way Test. The invocation was given by Kyle Johnson, reminding us during this holiday season to think about what we are thankful for, and to continue to be Rotarians by helping those in our community that need it most. President Wayne reminded us of the anniversary of the assassination of JFK this coming Friday, to take a moment to remember this event. Lunch was served.
ATTENDANCE
We had 59 members present, and multiple guests: Kelly Messining from Rochester High School Interact Club, Andrea Walker-Leidy, a previous Rotarian, and Tom Inger, a guest of Wayne Hodges. In addition, there were several job shadow students attending.
15th HANDSHAKE
Sharon Reinke was proud to announce that Phil McPeek was the winner of this week's 15th Handshake award, enjoy the week without fines Phil!
HAPPY BUCKS
President Wayne was happy about the three Jerry's (varied spellings) and a Tom that help set up the meeting every week, thank you Rotarians!
Rhonda was happy about receiving a message about going to Zone 21 (32 countries together). She attended their zone institute, and met Rotarians from many countries. From there, she went to Accra Ghana, landing in Istanbul, Turkey at the world's largest airport.
Paul Haig made several announcements about Rochester events, take a look and participate!
Christine Hage was happy to announce that last night was her final library board meeting, and looking forward to having time to spend with her family.
ROTARIAN OF THE WEEK
The Rotarian of the Week was absent (again), further increasing the cash flow (gold of course) through the urinal, er, trophy...
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Ron Lichtle gave an update on our Christmas Party, coming up on Thursday, December 19th at Great Oaks Country Club. A sign up is being distributed, please sign up, this will be a great event.
Kyle Johnson gave us an update on our bell ringing, we have a few spots still open, please sign up. The event is this coming Monday evening.
Marty Pavlick and Ethan Hoffman were recognized for all their work on the job shadow program, nice job gentlemen!
President Wayne then gave us a reminder that December 10th, we will be meeting at Oakland University to hear Ora Pescovitz.
Poinsettia update, we are at 1,100 poinsettias, we need to hit 1,600. To help inspire us, we were entertained by the perpetual sisters of Poinsettias. GO SELL!
BIRTHDAYS AND CLUB ANNIVERSARIES
Celebrating birthdays this week are David Archbold, Rheanne Suszek, and Bill Fox. Happy Birthday!
Eric Whipple, Jo Allen, and Ron Diliddo celebrated their Rotary join anniversaries.
SONGS
Eric Whipple then led us in two songs, Shine On Harvest Moon and Silver Bells. Excellent choices for the day, thanks Eric!
SHERIFF'S REPORT
Chief Schettenhelm fined everyone for assorted and sundry reasons including bullying, job shadow, Michigan fans, four score and seven years ago calculations, map reading (and folding), toilets, Monopoly, raising $310 for our charity work, nice job Steve!
PROGRAM
Rhonda Panczyk then introduced our program of the day, which was a video developed by Rotary outlining our work to eradicate Polio. If you are interested in seeing this video, please take a look here:
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