Our meeting on last Thursday was very informative as well as entertaining. First off, our District Governor Nominee, Herb Klotz, in his capacity as Purple Pinkie Race Coordinator, presented President Cheryl with a Certificate of Appreciation for the efforts of Morning Star in contributing/raising $2,000 for the event. Overall the Race generated over $30,000 for the fight against Polio. Herb also made an appearance as a very happy Herb the Eagles Underdog celebrating the Super Bowl Victory!
Next we had the pleasure of a Classification Talk by new member Sarabel Conn. Sarabel has a very strong professional background in chemistry. She focused on adhesives in the areas of new product testing and development primarily for commercial applications.
Having retired after sticking to it for 37 years, she has quickly come to be a very engaged Morning Star Rotarian. She has been involved with the Bethlehem Sheltering programs, other soup kitchens, and prayer schools and is an avid knitter. Feel free to bring your knitting along to meetings whenever the spirit moves you.
We are fortunate to have Sarabel who “really wants to make a difference!”
Our next Classification Talk was by Ron Spier, a self-professed “I am not a morning person!” kind of guy who spent most of his life thinking he was of Germanic decent. Catching the bug on ancestral research lead him to find he was only 24% German, and a long litany of numerous ethnic groups concluding Ron to be an admitted “mutt!”
Ron had a varied professional career until some year’s back he went into teaching. Not just anywhere, but at Broughal Middle School in south Bethlehem. He had the challenges of working with a broad diversity of young students most often of very different backgrounds and life experiences. Fortunately for many of those students, Ron absolutely loved it. He found he was often the key male figure in the lives of many of his students. As he stated, “when one of those really challenging students walked up and gave him a hug, saying how much he missed him over the summer I knew I found my calling".
We are happy to welcome Ron to Morning Star, but be aware, your best chance for fellowship will be at First Thursdays!
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