December 4 2013 Newsletter
INVOCATION: Paul Organ shared a wonderful invocation mentioning Jim Banks passing, and encouraged us all to give and live like he did.
GUEST ANNOUNCER: Jeff Wagner guest announcer let us know that Ron Taggart did not sign in. HAPPY BUCKS: Lou Dirker - Shop with a cop tickets available please contact him for tickets, and thank you for your support. Ray Evans - Extremely pleased with the $2300 we raised and wants to thank all of us for supporting such a great cause. While away in Hilton Head, 5 minutes they raised $7500 for the boxes. CLUB ANNIVERSARY: Ray Evans 9 years. WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES: Carrie Leising 16 years, Jon Sues 13 years. BIRTHDAYS: We sang to Mark Ferguson and Andy Denton. Wish Anne Hanson a happy birthday as well if you see her. ROTARY FUN FACT: Who is District Governor of #6630? Bob Johnson... good job Roger Cline. Jeff told some kind of joke about blonds. I didn’t get it. Then he told us things that dads will never say, like stopping to ask for directions. TICKET: Spangler’s Table had ticket and Tony drew king of diamonds.
PRESIDENT: NEW MEMBER: Welcome Dave Christman back to the club. Sponsor Dick Hall, he was pinned again and welcomed. Dave has 3 children, and told us all the great things he has done in life. VOTE: We casted votes for board. TIP $ SERVERS: please donate in the basket up front at Sarge table to thank the servers here at SLCC for wonderful service they give us all year long. Any agenda items for board meeting please send to President promptly today. CHRISTMAS PROGRAM: Stow Orchestra, story teller and Santa will be here on December 18th. FUTURE MEETINGS: no meeting 25th, and no meeting on New Year’s Day. SLCC is closed January 8-15th we will be at Bellacino’s for our meetings those 2 weeks.
Dick Spangler: Wrapping party next Tuesday night, 6:30-8:00 at On Tap. Please give Dick any money that you pledged for sponsorship of this. We are helping 12 families in our area this year. Great job by all.
Marv Mills - Delivery teams are all put together and routed for delivering the gifts. We are all set, thank you.
Pat Messmore - football pool winners announced. He also encouraged us to donate to the foundation, and if you want to know your Paul Harris status let him know. 330-607-8959. President also thanked Pat for raising $2000 from football pool each year to fund our dictionary project for the kids, thanks Pat!
Ron Taggart - gave us an update of the CAMO project and highlighted page 13 about honesty, and Kathryn Tschiegg who has spoken at our club before. Great article, thanked us for supporting this project and we shall continue. (see attached article)
Mark Lucco - Golf outing committee meeting at Bob Evans 7:00 AM THIS Friday.
Bruce Hill- Salvation Army bell ringing, please sign up where needed PLEASE, thanks.
We still need someone THIS SATURDAY 5-7PM. Please call Bruce at 330-903-1524.
JIM BANKS: In memory of Jim, Paul Organ organized a program for us to remember him and honor him. Dick Spangler spoke first about when they formed the club. He shared with us how he met Jim, his neighbor. Who came into Sears and asked for Dick Spangler to meet with him about a problem he had, that there was no Rotary Club here. So they met at the Cafe in Stow, with a few others. His attitude was “We are going to do this, and we would like for you to be a part of it.” After several meetings we knew what Jim was about and what Rotary was about... He wanted to have the club chartered, we needed at least 7 people. They had to have a president, a vice president and five committee chairs. There were 8 of them there that day, so this could be done! He was always very active, had great ideas and giving attitude. They all met in Marhofer’s garage and make poison control packages for doorknobs and delivered to local homes in the area. They did all sorts of great things. Bonnie Housley spoke next, she let us know services are Dec 14th at 1:00PM for Jim. Her first meeting here was October 1987. Jim Banks welcomed her warmly. He was the father of the club and a second father to her. Father Banks, is what she began to call him. He encouraged her to become president, and become a speaker at the All Ohio PETS program. He stood along side her and encouraged her to become a leading Rotarian, and get involved. She credits him for contributing to each step she has made. He caused a lot of Rotarians to see things differently and affected many of us in this room. He was the founder of the AZ Baker Award which he is proud that we have earned every year. He encouraged her to run for District Governor and helped her get there. His influence and class was felt district wide. 1999-2000 Jim was honored as Rotarian of the Year for the District. First time this award was given. He was a true Rotarian. He has now been reunited with his wife, and god bless you Father Banks. You will be missed. In closing Rick Archer finished up with a great cheer in honor of Father Banks.
VOTE RESULTS: Jim Callahan, Christina Gary, John Pribonic, and Katie Wright will start service on the board, July 1st 2014. Congratulations to all of you!
Jacqueline A. Bowman
330.687.7300