Mini-Classifications
Posted by Bill Molesworth
The scheduled speaker was unavailable so Joyce selected several unwitting victims to give us updated on their lives and careers.
Alex Jarlette opened his first nursing home in 1977, living there with 3 kids till they managed to winterize, sort of, a cottage, which committed him to a long commute. The company has moved into Retirement Homes and grown to 15 facilities.He has been President of the Nursing Home Association and worked with the governments so that the situation for seniors' care, he feels, is much more stable now. His son is in charge of the company now.Their next project is a 100 bed Ret. Lodge on the suites pattern in Penetang.
Jim Shaw said that we hear a lot about the Health Care System but as far as he's concerned, it's marvellous. He had an immediate problem and it was resolved immediately. The staff were uniformly excellent. He had a bone marrow transplant, which he didn't enjoy, and a stem cell transplant a year ago and he feels great and is happy to be here. (looks good too and has more hair than I do).
Fred Israel has been in Rotary since 1967 and Midland is his third club. He said it has been the most work of the three, but also the most fun. The others were bigger so there were more people to work on projects. While here he has done the Bulletin, been the Secretary and worked on most of the Committees. He and his wife have had a wonderful 48 years, working together professionally for most of the time in Library Administrations. He spent some time towards the end of his career in Municipal Admin, which he does not recommend. When they moved here they built a house on their cottage property but found it too much. They moved to a condo in Penetang and are busier than ever.
Joyce Campbell was born and raised in Boston. Both her parents were profoundly deaf so she grew up lip reading and using sign language. Her Dad was a tool maker who worked on creating experimental prototypes of such things as artificial hears. He was the first deaf person with a pilot's license so she was taught to do everything - her only problem was that her Dad usually learned stuff faster and moved on to the next challenge before she'd truly mastered the last one. She met a guy from the Chatham area who was in Mass. on a hockey scholarship and moved there and then to Timmins. She has 3 sons and half a dozen grand kids.She was recently engaged to Terry, they've bought a house and are moving in Oct.She has had a variety of careers - X Ray tech, homemaker, insurance sales agent, financial planning, economic dev. (in which she has a degree) and currently, after a brief period of retirement, she's working as Sales and Marketing for Best Western hotels over a large swath of eastern NA.As a final, she said she'd had polio at age 10 and remembers the spinal taps and the misery and she holds the Polio Plus campaign close to her heart.
David Mink joined Rotary in 1983, sponsored by his father in law, John Bourgeois who has just finished a round of chemo and is waiting for a check up. Dave's been married 24 years. AJ was born in 1994 and keeps him young with coaching basketball, playing golf and boating at the cottage. Dave says he never got into hockey, his parents wouldn't get up that early.He and Michelle are involved in fundraising and committee work.His Dad was a salesman who took a position in Midland and then moved into insurance. Dave joined him in 1979 and has seen the business grow from 3 to 15 people. They've bought out some other brokerages and combined them in the one office. Insurance has had some difficulties - it's always been a cyclical business - esp. major disasters and weather but he finds it challenging, loves the community and has great friends in Rotary.
Don Gordon has a new grandson, has just gotten married and has had his daughter join the business. He joined Rotary in Midland in 1978, moved to the Orillia Club for a while, took an absence for awhile and came back here to find people with names he knew but faces he no longer recognized.Atlas Block has 3 locations, her, Orillia and Brockville. Their plan now is to invest in equipment and 'hardscape' products, for which the demand is growing. The average purchase has grown from $100.00 to over $1,500.00 as people improve their yards.He admits his attendance is not great, though the e-clubs are great, but he enjoys Rotary and the people he meets there.
Jim Shaw said that we hear a lot about the Health Care System but as far as he's concerned, it's marvellous. He had an immediate problem and it was resolved immediately. The staff were uniformly excellent. He had a bone marrow transplant, which he didn't enjoy, and a stem cell transplant a year ago and he feels great and is happy to be here. (looks good too and has more hair than I do).
Fred Israel has been in Rotary since 1967 and Midland is his third club. He said it has been the most work of the three, but also the most fun. The others were bigger so there were more people to work on projects. While here he has done the Bulletin, been the Secretary and worked on most of the Committees. He and his wife have had a wonderful 48 years, working together professionally for most of the time in Library Administrations. He spent some time towards the end of his career in Municipal Admin, which he does not recommend. When they moved here they built a house on their cottage property but found it too much. They moved to a condo in Penetang and are busier than ever.
Joyce Campbell was born and raised in Boston. Both her parents were profoundly deaf so she grew up lip reading and using sign language. Her Dad was a tool maker who worked on creating experimental prototypes of such things as artificial hears. He was the first deaf person with a pilot's license so she was taught to do everything - her only problem was that her Dad usually learned stuff faster and moved on to the next challenge before she'd truly mastered the last one. She met a guy from the Chatham area who was in Mass. on a hockey scholarship and moved there and then to Timmins. She has 3 sons and half a dozen grand kids.She was recently engaged to Terry, they've bought a house and are moving in Oct.She has had a variety of careers - X Ray tech, homemaker, insurance sales agent, financial planning, economic dev. (in which she has a degree) and currently, after a brief period of retirement, she's working as Sales and Marketing for Best Western hotels over a large swath of eastern NA.As a final, she said she'd had polio at age 10 and remembers the spinal taps and the misery and she holds the Polio Plus campaign close to her heart.
David Mink joined Rotary in 1983, sponsored by his father in law, John Bourgeois who has just finished a round of chemo and is waiting for a check up. Dave's been married 24 years. AJ was born in 1994 and keeps him young with coaching basketball, playing golf and boating at the cottage. Dave says he never got into hockey, his parents wouldn't get up that early.He and Michelle are involved in fundraising and committee work.His Dad was a salesman who took a position in Midland and then moved into insurance. Dave joined him in 1979 and has seen the business grow from 3 to 15 people. They've bought out some other brokerages and combined them in the one office. Insurance has had some difficulties - it's always been a cyclical business - esp. major disasters and weather but he finds it challenging, loves the community and has great friends in Rotary.
Don Gordon has a new grandson, has just gotten married and has had his daughter join the business. He joined Rotary in Midland in 1978, moved to the Orillia Club for a while, took an absence for awhile and came back here to find people with names he knew but faces he no longer recognized.Atlas Block has 3 locations, her, Orillia and Brockville. Their plan now is to invest in equipment and 'hardscape' products, for which the demand is growing. The average purchase has grown from $100.00 to over $1,500.00 as people improve their yards.He admits his attendance is not great, though the e-clubs are great, but he enjoys Rotary and the people he meets there.