Jan 21 2009

Dori Enderle and President Eddie

Former President Beetle with birthday hat and Family


Reporter Notes: Kevin Meetze / 1/21/09

Announcements:

1. Judy Johnson announced Bowling Tournament Sat Feb 28
2. Jim Wellman asked members to turn in community service forms
3. Update your email with Eddie if you are not getting meeting notices
4. District Conference will be March 19-22 here in Columbia (no meeting that week)

Guest Speaker / Ms. Dori Enderle

• Rod Funderburk introduced our speaker as our clubs ambassadorial scholarship recipient
• Ms. Enderlee is a native Texan and is in her fifth year at USC
• She enjoys dancing, teaching dance, and is a member of the USC dance team
• She volunteers with other USC students to help children in the Waverly Community
• She plans on attending graduate school and would like to work for the State Department in the Foreign Service.
• She spent 2 ½ months in China and Taiwan.
• Along with the people and history she especially loved the food.
• She explained that Taiwan is a democratic country but it is considered by China as a Province. In her view the citizens were satisfied with the political situation and understood that economically they had to maintain good ties with China.
• She lived and studied in Taipei which has many modern western influences.
• Regarding language, the people speak many different dialects which were very confusing. Also the business people adopt a western name related to their business. Some examples were her Rotary contact, Mr. Lawyer, and some others like Mr. Electronics.
• She concluded her presentation by teaching our club how to say “hello” (Ni Hao), “America” (Mei Guo), “Rotary” (Fu Lun), and “Thank You” (Xie Xie)

Natascha Mattich and John Adair

Jan 14 2009

The Rotary Club of Lake Murray-Irmo held its meeting Wednesday, Jan. 14, at the SCE&G Lake Murray Training Center. Following the invocation, pledge of allegiance, recognition of Beetle Bailey’s birthday, and introduction of guests, Jim Landreth spoke to the Club about Environmental Upgrades at some of the SCE&G Power Plants.
Landreth spoke about changes occurring as a result of the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR). Two of the goals are to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by 60% and mercury by 40% starting January 1, 2010. SCE&G is installing state of the art technology to move towards achieving those goals. The Cope Station in Orangeburg has spent $64 million to implement measures to reduce nitrogen emissions (NOx) into the atmosphere by 90% from that plant. Landreth said that nuclear plants are a good source of clean energy for the long term and should be the most inexpensive as well.
SCE&G received the 2006 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award for its work in building the new Lake Murray dam. That project was one of the three South Carolina projects which were finalists in the competition (the other two were the Arthur G. Ravenel Jr. bridge in Charleston and the Liberty Bridge in Greenville).
President Eddie announced that the next board meeting would be Jan. 16 at Panera Bread restaurant on Bower Parkway at 7:30 a.m. There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.

Jan 7 2009

January 7, 2009

Reporter-- Jim Wellman


President Eddie Robinson called the meeting to order. John Adair gave the invocation, after which followed the Pledge of Allegiance.

John Hanson introduced our visiting Rotarians.

Lyman Whitehead entertained us with his usual message of humor and good cheer.

Marsha Medway of the Five Points Rotary Club announced effective this week that their club has changed their meeting place to the Columbia Convention Center. Their meeting time of 1:00 PM each Friday would remain the same.

Ginny Barr asked each member who attended our recent meeting at DJJ to complete a survey outlining their experience there. Our feedback would be used as a training tool to help those students who are looking at the hospitality industry as a potential career.

John Adair and Bob Moseley reminded us that as part of our vocational meeting program that our next meeting would be held at the SCE&G training facility at the Lake Murray dam. We will meet at our usual time to enjoy breakfast and a tour of the dam area.

Jack Terrell requested that our members help the Irmo Chapin Recreation Commission in their long range planning process by completing a survey, either on-line or a hard copy. This survey will be used to access the wants and needs of this community as it relates to its recreational needs.

President Eddie Robinson presented the following nomination report from the Board:
Larry Stohs – secretary and Jeanette Coulter – treasurer for the next Rotary year. He asked if there were any additional nominations from the floor. Hearing none, the candidates were elected by acclamation. Congratulations to each of the fine Rotarians.

A Happy Dollar session was held with many Rotarians showing that we all have much to be thankful for.

Our own Dr. Rosalie Browning, her husband Jim Browning and Dr. Karen Greenfield presented a program that shared with us their experiences on a recent mission to Huaraz Peru. During that trip they helped provide medical and other services to people in four villages in that area. Their slide show indicated an area of much natural beauty but much poverty as well. Their efforts were inspiring to us all.

President Eddie Robinson adjourned the meeting and wished us all a good week.