Welcome to another issue of our weekly bulletin! Find out who our upcoming speakers are, what we covered during the last weekly meeting, and learn more about our Member of the Week.
Historic Rock Ford, Samuel Slaymaker-Zoom Mtg
Samuel (Sam) C. Slaymaker, III, Esq.
Samuel C. Slaymaker, III grew up in Gap, Pennsylvania at his family’s ancestral home called White Chimneys. Surrounded by his family’s history, as well as Lancaster County’s history, he developed a passion for the preservation of those characteristics which make Pennsylvania’s heritage so rich and unique. Slaymaker Heritage Law is located in the former factory of Sam’s family’s business, The Slaymaker Lock Company, founded by Sam’s great-grandfather in 1888, which was a Lancaster manufacturer of padlocks for close to 100 years. This circa 1918 building is both a significant landmark in the history of Lancaster industry and an excellent example of the adaptive re-use of an historic structure.
Sam currently works part-time as Executive Director of Rock Ford, and previously worked as Executive Director of The James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. A lawyer by profession, Sam also spent 10 years in the practice of general law with the Lancaster firm of May, Metzger and Slaymaker. He has served on the Board of the Lancaster County Historical Society, as well as the Donegal Society and the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution. Service to these organizations is a family tradition for the Slaymakers, going back to Sam’s great-grandfather. Sam received the C. Emlen Urban Award from the Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County in 1998 for the preservation of his historic family estate, White Chimneys, using a combination of building facade and open space easements, “marking the first instance in Lancaster County that a property listed in the National Register of Historic Places has been preserved in this manner.”
Sam graduated from the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and received a B.A. degree in History with highest honors from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He received his law degree from Penn State Dickinson School of Law and, after graduation, he worked as a law clerk for Federal District Judge Ronald Buckwalter in Philadelphia. In 2005, Sam earned a Master’s degree in American history from Millersville University.
Sam views Slaymaker Heritage Law as the ideal merger of his legal training, museum and volunteer experience, unique upbringing in his family homestead while surrounded by his family’s long standing commitment to historical causes, his previous work in historic preservation, and his desire to preserve our heritage while planning for our future.
Rock Ford is the 1794 Georgian style home of Edward Hand, Adjutant General to George Washington during the Revolutionary War. Rock Ford has been open to the public as an historic house museum since 1961. In addition to his work at Slaymaker Heritage Law, Samuel C. Slaymaker has served as Executive Director of Rock Ford since 2005
Many of you have contacted me regarding the new attendance requirements beginning September 1st. I know that the "A" in the ABCs of Rotary is important to many of you. However, after hearing from a number of you and carefully reviewing all of your thoughts and ideas, I have decided to rescind the attendance requirement.
Following the Four Way Test, "is it beneficial to all", seems to come to mind. Not counting attendance at this time would be beneficial to all. We will likely continue to Zoom through the end of the year and will review the attendance issue again in January.
Thank you for your thoughts and ideas and let's keep our Club moving forward.
President Ben Bamford
Diversity & Inclusivity Committee
Jim Shenk reported that the aforementioned committee is preparing a poll that will be administered by a third party. Please respond promptly to the poll.
Committee members are: Peter Barber, Liz Martin, Damaris Rau, Brett Peters, Josh McManness and Susan Eberly.
New Member Proposed
Brett Peters is proposing Derek Lau for membership.
Providing no objections are received from the membership within seven days of this email, the proposed member will be admitted into the Rotary Club of Lancaster
Rotary Rendezvous at Stoner Grille!
While we are going to miss your smiling facing at Rotary Rendezvous this week we hope to see you at our next meeting. As a reminder we meet the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month. Below, we've listed the next few meetings so you can save the dates.
If you'd like to attend, please remember to RSVP the week of the meeting. We have limited space as Stoner Grille is observing social distancing rules and masks are required in the building. Please remember spouses and friends are always welcomed!
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
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