Dr. Christian B. Keller is the General Dwight D. Eisenhower Chair of National Security and Professor of History in the Department of
National Security and Strategy at the United States Army War College, Carlisle, PA.
Previously, he served as Professor of Military History for five and a half years at the Army Command and General Staff College, Ft. Belvoir, VA, and has taught at numerous civilian institutions, including Shippensburg University, Gettysburg College, Dickinson College, and Washington and Lee University.
In 2001-2002 he was a Fulbright Professor of American History at the
University of Jena, Germany. Along with many scholarly articles focusing on the Civil War, he is author of Chancellorsville and the
Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory (Fordham, 2007), co-author of Damn Dutch: Pennsylvania Germans at Gettysburg (Rowman-Littlefield/Stackpole, 2004), and co-author of Pennsylvania: A Military History (Westholme Publishing, 2016). He is currently writing The Great Partnership: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Confederate Strategy in the East (contracted with University of North Carolina Press).
Dr. Keller, a native of Carlisle, lives with his wife, Kelley, in an antebellum house near the War College.
Bill Patrick made the first announcement from the podium for the Annual RCL Ski Trip & Rolling Happy Hour!
Our annual Rotary ski pilgrimage this year is headed back to Elk Mountain Resort. As the Elk Mountain saying goes, "Vermont Skiing without the drive". The Rotary Club of Lancaster will again be joined by the Sunrise Rotary Club in sponsoring the Event.
The date is Thursday, February 6, 2020. We will meet at 5:45 am with the bus departing at 6:00 am from the Lancaster Country Club arriving by Executive Coach at Elk Mountain around 9:30 am. Our group will ski, board and socialize on the Mountain and in the Lodge until about 4:00pm before heading home.
The bus ride home will feature the ever popular. Rotary-rolling-happy-hour with song and tale. We mill make a quick pit stop on the way home and visit our friend Angelo at Aracaro & Genell Italian Restaurant in Olde Forge for salad and pie. Legend has it that Olde Forge international "pizza capital of the world". Read more if you’re hungry: https://arcaroandgenell.com/.
The projected trip cost is $90 for the round trip coach, continental breakfast, day of skiing, and happy hour refreshments. Rental skis, boots, and poles are an additional $26. Please make checks out to the Rotary Club of Lancaster which will be collected on the bus on our way to the slopes. Dinner is Dutch treat.
Please mark your calendars and let me know if you are coming. Guests are welcome. Current conditions at Elk Mountain reports excellent with 15 trails open and snow depth 18"- 48. For current conditions go to: http://www.elkskier.com/conditions-web-cam/
Tip-Off Auction January 29th
Donations are being accepted for an auction to hopefully raise an additional $5,000 for the club, as an extension of the Tip-Off Tournament. Members are encouraged to donate something other members would like to bid. Any questions, donations or ideas, please contact Karl Boltz or Lisa Groff.
Transmitter Committee Meeting January 29th
We are rapidly approaching the end of the Rotary year with only 20 Transmitters to go!
The committee needs volunteers to chair the committee, reporters and editors to make this weekly communication happen. Duffy Johnson & Andy Fletcher will have served for two years at the end of June. Prior to this tour of duty, Jon Walker & Jonas Kauffman served two years doing the same.
The Club is in dire need of the commitment of some members to take over this weekly task. Please attend the meeting on the 29th of January for more information.
Lancaster Penn Square Rotary Club Valentine Fundraiser
Kay McClenathan, PP Bob’s lovely wife and better half, presented an opportunity for a Valentine’s Day gift. Heart cut-outs will be hung from the downtown lampposts and include a loving message of your choice. “Fur baby” cutouts of a dog or bone will be hung from the fence along Binn’s Park. All the information can be found here: https://www.lancpennsquarerotary.org/hearts-for-lancaster--pets.html
Secret Angel Project
Josh McManness reported to the club on the success of the Secret Angel Project. Our club members filled 70 bags of important items like hats, gloves, scarves, toothbrushes, and more for refugee students at Reynolds Middle School. Josh thanked Dave Falk, Stephanie Valar and all the members of the Refugee Center Committee, as well as all who contributed.
Joys & Concerns
Congratulations to Dave Heckel welcoming his second grandchild
Eden Road Bridge is open, reports a joyous Sam Mecum. Now watch your speed as you all head to Costco!
PP Minney is taking the Auto Train to Florida and is pleased to tell us he got a Rotary discount on the ticket price.
Duty Roster
Transmitter Reporter:
Andy Fletcher
Invocation:
Harry Flick
Pianist:
John Saeger
Song Leader:
Jamie Alton
Registration:
Larry Helicher, Don Banzhof
Greeter
Malcolm Macdougall
Sergeant-at-Arms
Reid Spangler
Visitor Introductions:
Beth Trout
Joys and Concerns
Lisa Lewis
Speaker Introduction:
Tom Gemmill
Help Keep the Club Calendar Updated
All Rotarians – especially committee chairs – are encouraged to help keep our new Club Calendar full and updated with the great things that our Club is doing in the community. Please submit any items you would like added to Kathy by e-mailing her atRotaryClubofLancaster@gmail.com. Examples include the schedule of McCaskey Mentoring Sessions, Committee Meetings, Power Packs or Salvation Army Bell Ringing. If it’s happening, let’s get it on the Calendar for all to see! Your help will keep us all updated with what’s going on within the Club AND will showcase our very active Club to the Lancaster Community and to prospective members. The Club Calendar is available atwww.LancasterRotary.org
Thirty (30) minute attendance at Committee meetings
Bring a guest to a Rotary meeting
Attending or volunteering at certain designated events
Attending a meeting at another Club, such as the following nearby Clubs:
CLUB NAME
ID
LOCATION
MEETING TIME
Denver-Ephrata Area
5340
American Legion, 300 Cocalico St, Ephrata
Thursdays at 7:30 AM
Donegal
5333
Gus’s Keystone Restaurant, 1050 W Main St, Mount Joy
Tuesdays at 7:30 AM
Elizabethtown
5338
Funck’s Brewery
28 S. Market St.
Elizabethtown
Fridays at 12:15 PM
Hershey
5344
Hershey Lodge & Convention Center, 325 University Drive, Hershey
Mondays at 12:00 PM
and
Wednesdays at 5:30 PM
Lancaster Hempfield
5348
Heritage Hotel, 500 Centerville Road, Lancaster
Tuesdays at 7:15 AM
Lancaster Penn Square
82495
Federal Tap House, 201 N Queen St, Lancaster
Wednesdays at 5:30 PM
Lancaster Sunrise
50590
Bent Creek Country Club
620 Bent Creek Drive
Lititz, PA
Thursdays at 7:30 AM
Lancaster-South
24701
Oak Leaf Manor, 2101 Wabank Rd, Millersville
Wednesdays at 7:30 AM
Lititz
5350
General Sutter Inn, 14 E Main St, Lititz
Every Tuesday at 6:00 PM and every Thursday at 12:00 PM
Manheim
5352
Teen Central, 15 S Wolf St, Manheim
Thursdays at 12:00 PM
Mount Joy
5357
The Gathering Place, 6 Pine St, Mount Joy
Tuesdays at 12:15 PM
New Holland
5359
Garden Spot Village, 433 S Kinzer Ave,
New Holland
1st, 3rd, 5th Wednesday at 7:30 AM - 2nd & 4th at NOON
Paradise
5361
Bird-in-Hand Restaurant, 2760 Old Philadelphia Pike, Bird in Hand
Mondays at NOON
The Transmitter is published weekly. Submissions for Announcements and Committee changes/additions are due to the editor via email by 5:00 p.m. the Thursday after the meeting for publication & delivery on 5pm Friday before the meeting. Email to: asfletch@ptd.net
Executive Administrator: Kathy Hainley, 717.581.8811 Email to:
rotarycluboflancaster@gmail.com
Rotary Club of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, PO Box 1387, Lancaster, PA 17608
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