March 6, 2017 Bulletin (Mar 06, 2017)

March 13th - State Representative Scott Drury

March 20th- Carol Brussion, HP/HW Child Care Association

March 27th - Courtney Mayszak, Registered Dietitian, Sunset Foods

April 8th - Rotary Razzamatazz!! will be held at the Birchwood Club beginning at 6 p.m. Both dinner and raffle tickets are available now. This year there are Early Bird Specials. Dinner tickets $90 in honor of our 90th Birthday, but after the Ides of March (March 15th), the price goes up to $125.00. Raffle Tickets are $100 each and when you buy two, you get a third FREE! But only until March 15th. GET YOURS NOW by contacting Mike Babian at 847-863-6729. With a comedy show by the Improv Playhouse and those amazing kids from last year, the HPHS DJ Club, we are sure to have a great night of laughter and dancing while raising money to help local students and charities. It's a birthday party not to miss - so get your Gatsby on and join us!

See "This and That" for more...

Pearls of the Club

You reap what you sow. (Galatians 6:7)

Notes From The March 6th Meeting

Paul Munk called the meeting to order with the Pledge of Allegiance and the recitation of Rotary’s “Four Way Test”.

Mike Babian gave an update on the upcoming Gala that will be held at Birchwood Country Club on April 8, 2017. Dinner and raffle tickets for the event are now available. The cost is $90 and $100 respectively, with the dinner ticket price going to $125 after March 15^th. Also, if you purchase two (2) raffle tickets prior to March 15, you will get a 3^rd ticket for free, so get your tickets soon!

Memorial Day Weekend, the Interact Club will be doing an Adopt-A-Highway program clean-up. We would love to have as many Rotary volunteers as possible. More details to follow...

Guests and Visiting Rotarians

Gail Hodges,Family Service of Lake County, Speaker

50/50 Winners

1st Place: Bill Siskel

2nd Place: Paul Munk

3rd Place: Phil Lazarus

Happy Dollars

Mike Stroz, for his Volunteers sign up launch on his website. They will clean up the Morraine Beach on Saturday from 9:00 -11:30 if anyone wants to join him; Phil Lazarus for the performance by Midwest Young Artists Conservatory's Woodwind Chamber Music Ensembles at Highland Park Music to Music Series Recital on Sunday that he took his grandchildren to; Jon Levey - 'just because'. . and to welcome Gail Hodges today, and congratulations to MYA. He is attending their Gala this Saturday evening and hopes others do, too. He also said there are still a few seats left at Highland Park Bank & Trust Company's Dynamics and Power of Negotiating on Thursday morning, 7:30 - 9:00 am on March 16: Jim Berardi, who went to Interact's Polar Plunge in Fox Lake and was also able to play golf at HPCC yesterday; Karen Dennis, working on MYA's Gala which will be on 3/11, and happy to relax with her Rotary Colleagues, eat lunch and listen to a speaker; Paul Munk, 'also just because'. . and his younger son is ending his Memphis teaching career and heading back to graduate school; and Mike Babian, to promote Rotary's April 8th Dinner and Raffle. Purchase tickets before March 15 to save money!

The Day's Program

The Day's Speaker was Gail Hodges, the Development Director of Family Service of Lake County. Gail thanked Rotarians for their support of the Nuestro Center. The money went to two areas:

First of which was counseling. They provide individual and group therapy to adults, families, youth and seniors, including bilingual counseling. For instance, there was SELF, a social emotional program for middle and high school students which helps them make good decisions in times of challenge. There was also case management to help families sustain financial stability. All of the organization's counselors hold master's degrees and all but two are licensed clinical social worker. Their goal is to reach a rate of 3.5 out of 4 in satisfaction with counseling experience and services. In 2015, they reached 3.8 our 4 rating from their clients.

Second was education: particularly two programs: 1) Homework Club at Oak Terrace which serves 41 students in grades 1-5, which has seen success in improved score, and 2) Nuestro Verano Summer Camp which served 60 students, providing them a summer program close to what other students receive with field trips, STEM experiments, meals every day and backpacks with food for the families on the weekend.

To give you some perspective of what Family Service faces in our community - 73 percent of the students at Oak Terrace are low income, typically a family of five making about $20K per year.

Gail Hodges explaining the services provided at Family Service of Lake County

Many thanks to Karen Dennis for her notes and Diana Sotelo for her picture!

This and That...

Fred Orkin informed us that DECA is still looking for volunteers to serve as judges at the State competition which will be held March 10th in Rosemont, IL. If interested, please contact Fred.

MYA's Gala on March 11th - Food, Auction and Music. 6:00 p.m. at the Westin North Shore in Wheeling 601 N Milwaukee Ave. To purchase tickets, click here.

Jon Levey wanted to let everyone know about next month's breakfast seminar at Highland Bank and Trust on March 16th from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. The topic will be "The Dynamics of Power Negotiating"

What Happened In 1927...

In celebrating our Club's birthday, let's take the opportunity to look at what was happening in the world at that time. So over the next few months, I'll share with you what I've been able to find out able the 1927.

Some Highland Park Rotary News Stories of the year 1927:

Paul Udell, a publisher, was the Chairman of the group that proposed our Club. (At the time, the Waukegan Rotary Club had taken a survey ans determined the population of Highland Park was 6,167 in 1923.) Mr. Udell tried twice to get a Club started - once in 1923 and once in 1925. Why he failed, was unknown, but Solomon St. Peter was successful in 1927. The Wilmette Rotary Club was our sponsor and twenty-one men were proudly sworn in on December 27, 1927 as charter members of the Club:

President: Solomon St. Peter, Laundry

Vice President: Earl Gsell, Drug Retailing

Secretary: Percy Prior, Moving & Storage

Treasurer: Charles Grant, Banking

Sergeant-At-Arms: Paul Udell, Publisher

William Brown, Carpentry

Thomas Clark, Gas Service

Fred Cushing, Hotels

Joe Garnett, Department Store

Lyle Gourley, Lumber Retailing

Charles Harbaugh, Lumber Distribution

Harry Kelley, Funeral Directing

Edward Mikes Knox, Telephone Service

Walter Meierhoff, Hardware Retailing

Howard Moran, Plumbing

Dr. C Vigo Nichols, Dentistry

J. Richard Purnell, Truck Retailing

Dr. Donald Rossiter, Physician and Surgeon

Edward Schweitzer, Real Estate Agency

Dr. James Simon, Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat

Clarence Witt, Milk Retailing

This information was retrieved from Mort Gross' book, "Highland Park Rotary Club: 75 Years of Community Service".

More news to come next week. Stay tuned....

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President

Cynthia Plouche

President Elect

Yesim Sonmez

Secretary

Neil Dahlmann

Treasurer/Finance

Diana Sotelo

Charities

Paul Munk

Community Projects

Ghida Neukirch

Fellowship

Michael Babian

Fundraising

Yesim Sonmez

International

Martha Gray

Literacy

Fred Orkin

Membership

Larry Block

Membership

Joanne Gordon

Programs

Cynthia Plouche

Scholarships

Yesim Sonmez

RYLA

Yesim Sonmez

Rotary Foundation

Len Tenner

Member Birthdays

Ronald Davis

March 2

Juliann Tuohy

March 8

Daniel M. Pierce

March 31

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