Nov 17 2009

Announcements:

- Fill out your Rotary Survey if you have not done so.

- Christmas Social will be held on December 14 at Chestnut Hill

- Adopt a Highway clean up outing will be held on December 5

Speaker:

Dr. Berg Superintendent of Lexington/Richland District 5 was the speaker.

He indicated that he was enjoying the job and may stay on for a year or so longer. He stated that the school district was all about people. They had good people working in the district. They pay good salaries and they have high expectations from their employees. Said the schools were in good shape but need to address concerns at Leaphart, Seven Oaks and Haribson West. With the help of Helen Anderson director of instruction they were addressing those concerns. For example, they had moved Barbara Brockhart one of their best elementary principals to Haribson West. There was also good news on the construction from the bond approval. They were able to borrow money at 1% or less and the bids on the construction projects were as low as he had seen in 25 years.

Nov 4, 2009

November 4, 2009

Rotary opened with a prayer from John Adair. Although spiritual in nature, I could have sworn he was praying for the return of the GOP in New Jersey and Virginia! Or, was that just my imagination.

Our illustrous fundraiser, "par excellance", Jay Seward discussed our first Earth Day Bike Race next April. Plans are well underway and we need to give Jay all the support we can. A sign up sheet was passed around with many volunteer committee's for this race and we need to all sign up! 100% participation for this event, Ride or Work, which is it? Hopefully, this will be our biggest fundraiser yet.

Lyman Whitehead, subbing in with health and happiness, rambled on about something funny, but I must have dozed off. Thanks Lyman.

President Ginny acknowledged the fine work by Chip Lyerly for shadow day last week. We had a great turn out with 26 high school kids! Great job Chip!

A reminder, next week, November 11th is Vocational week. We will not be meeting at our usual spot but, instead, at the Fire Department behind Bi-Lo on St. Andrews Rd near Seven Oaks. Please park in the Bi - Lo parking lot and walk over. We will be provided a great tour of the Trauma Helicopter, which, hopefully, none of us or our loved ones will ever need as well as a presentation by the trauma specialists. This should be a very informative session so please try to make it. Yes, breakfast will be served!

Member updates included a web page for Bill Kopelman, www.caringbridge.org, for up to date info on his battle with cancer. Also, unfortunately, we learned of the death of Patty Cavanaugh's mother. Please remember Patty and her family in your prayers.

Our classification talk was delivered by Mai Li Munoz Adams, who is a fairly new member and is chasing her three children around when not raising money for the USC Foundation, which, by the way is her full time job. You gotta love a lady who was born in Queens (thats New York City folks) and raised in Tampa, Fl. and ended up in Columbia, SC!

Rod Funderburk introduced our speaker, Courtney Gibson for her report on Quito, Ecuador. You may remember Courtney was an Ambassadorial Scholarship winner and has spent the last 90 days there studying and serving others. Courtney discussed her two main service organizations while there, "Salesian Foundation for the Children of the Street" and "The Foundation for Education and International Volunteerism" which, you may remember is building a library. Courtney presented a check, on behalf of our club, to that organization. She also described how wonderful the people were and what a great host family she had. Rotary work at its finest.

Bill Danielson

October 28 2009

October 28, 2009

The Rotary Club of Lake Murray-Irmo

Meeting Opened

Chip Lyerly spoke to the club concerning “Shadow Day” and thanked all of the students and members that participated.

President Ginny Barr informed the Rotary members that they would be receiving a survey to be completed and returned to Jay Seward.

Judy Johnson introduced our speaker, Georgia Doran, Director of Career Education, USC Moore School of Business

- Mrs. Doran spoke briefly on USC Moore School of Business stating that they were recently able to raise over $41 million and received a match from Darla Moore of an additional $45 Million. To date Darla Moore has donated $70 million to the school.

- Mrs Doran stated that this is the first time four generations of people have been in the workplace at the same time. She concentrated her speech on the newest generation, Millennial Generation, and how it differs from other generations.

- The Millenial Generation is comprised of people ranging in age from 7 to 29. It is estimated that there are 80 million people in the Millenial Generation compared to 75 million baby boomers.

- In their lifetime they will average 7 to 15 jobs between 3 separate careers.

- They are the first generation to grow up with digital media. They are social, civic minded, family focused and have high expectations.

- Their lives have been shaped by major events including 9/11, Columbine and the shootings at Virginia Tech

- The Millenial Generation sees time as being fluid since they can update their news and communications immediately as opposed to other generations who view time as segmented.

Meeting Adjourned