Invocation: Jon Busby
Flag Salute: Beth Pandol
Song: Karen King
Good News & Announcements:
- Jason Cater had good news and bad news. Good news he will soon be getting married and going on his honeymoon. Bad news is he's going to miss 3 weeks of rotary. Congratulations Jason!
- Larry Reider encouraged folks to sign up for the Leadership in Ethics conference.
- What do you give Mike Chertok for Christmas? Socks of course! Gamecocks socks that is!
- Jeff Green is celebrating that his team, the Buffalo Bills, are in the playoffs for the first time in 34 years.
- President Steve shared that we raised $3,350 for Hurricane harvey victims!
Bell Ringing Results:
This year we raised $10, 717 in our bell ringing efforts. That's $2000 more than last year! And once again Jeff Johnson's team raised the most... over $4000! Good job Mike Willis, Jon Busby, Dave Morton and Jim Bloom! We'll be eagerly looking forward to our "Free Passes" from President Steve!
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The Program:
John Hefner, retired principal at Fruitvale High (for 30 years) shared with us the intricacies of History Day competitions and in particular, Madeline Abernathy's journey to her third win.
The title of Madeline's presentation was called
The White Rose Blooms in Darkness. It is the story of
Sophia Scholl, a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active within the
White Rose non-violent resistance group in
Nazi Germany around the years of 1942. It was a small underground resistance group operating out of the University of Munich. She was 18 years old. They created anti Nazi leaflets and distributed them around the campus.
The leaflets instructed Germans to passively resist the Nazi government. The pamphlet used both Biblical and philosophical support for an intellectual argument of resistance.
She was eventually caught and tried in court. She was found guilty and beheaded by guillotine. As tragic as that was, her bravery in the face of extreme danger paid off. The Allies got a hold of a copy of the White Rose and dropped hundreds of thousands of the leaflets over occupied Nazi Germany.
Her final words before being executed are quite poignant, words we should all find inspiring:
"How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?"
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