Host: Dick Hall

Announcer: Eric Weber

 

Week TWO of Rotary Career and Technical Education Month! Each week we will hear from local schools on how they are changing the way students view secondary education and helping them prepare for life beyond school.

 

Easter Egg Hunt: We will need volunteers to help with the City of Stow Easter Egg Hunt on April 4th from 8:30 AM - 11:00 AM. A sign up sheet will be going around in March.

 

Interact Dinner: This years Interact dinner will be April 22nd, 6 PM - 8 PM A sign up sheet will go around closer to the event.

 

40th Anniversary Celebration: May 20th is the date. If you have pictures from the last forty years, please share them with us!! Carrie Leising or Steve Dunton will collect them, make a copy and return them to you.

 

Bulldog Bags - February's item is Oatmeal Packets. Bring your donation to the club meetings or drop it of in the collection box at City Hall.

 

Rotary Foundation Forms: From now on if you are purchasing items on behalf of the Rotary Foundation, use our tax exempt form so you do not have to pay taxes and can save some money for our Club. Additionally, if you purchase something on behalf of the Foundation and need to be reimbursed, there is a form to fill out and you will submit that along with a copy of the receipt to Rick Archer and he will issue you a check. You can mail or email him the paperwork once completed. Both of these forms are available for pick from the Sgt. at Arms and we are working on making them available on our website as well. 
 

Thank you to those that are now sitting "THE Best Table!!!" You guys are the best!! "Let him that would move the world, first move himself." - Socrates (Shameless, I know. )

Linda Trevorrow filled in for Brad Jagger as announcer. We pulled two 50/50 cards this week after we lost the stack of cards last week, but the pot continues to grow as the Joker was not pulled either time. Aunt Mary paid a Happy Buck to share that her granddaughter was offered a full ride to Boston University to attend college.

 

Dick Hall then kicked off National Career-Tech Education Month and introduced Mary Jane Stanchina, Executive Director of the Six District Educational Compact (SDEC)shared some updates and information with us. The Six Districts are, Cuyahoga Falls, Hudson, Kent, Stow-Munroe Falls, Tallmadge, and Woodridge. The theme for this year is, "Celebrate Today, Own Tomorrow."

 

This year is the 50 year anniversary of the SDEC, which was also the first program of its kind in Ohio when it got its start. When the SDEC was first proposed in 1969, the Ohio Department of Education officials in Columbus called it pure folly. They said it would never work. They said the whole idea that six superintendents and six Boards of Education could agree to pool their resources, yet maintain their individual identities, was absurd. Well, 50 years later, they have certainly proven them wrong.

 

Through the years, the Compact has expanded beyond its original purpose of providing career and technical education. Today, the list of programs and services offered by the Compact includes a wide range of college tech prep initiatives, shared business services including professional development for support staff, special education, summer school, the Summa Compact Partnership, Pathway Project, and a whole host of special events. They are very excited to be introducing two new programs next year in Modern Communications through Media Production and EntrepreNEW Academy and soon to be coming will be Pharmaceutical Tech and Vet Tech programs! Thank you for sharing your passion Mary Jane!