July 21 2010

LAKE MURRY – IRMO ROTARY CLUB

July 21, 2010

           

The meeting was brought to order by President Judy Johnson and Health and Happiness was provided by Lyman Whitehead.

Ginny Barr and Patty Cavanaugh presented a Paul Harris Fellowship to Jim Browning, husband of Ros Browning.

Our speaker was Bill McCrary, Founder and CEO of Strategic Partners, a Columbia based professional service firm that specializes in leadership and sales force development.  Strategic Partners is affiliated with Sandler Training. 

Mr. McCrary stated that sales are made when expectations are made or exceeded.  He gave us several systems, processes, and strategies to succeed.   Among them were:   (1) to be a person one can trust; (2) be honest and manage expectations; and (3) that customers buy for their reasons, not yours.  He also said that all people are not potential customers for you. 

After a brief question and answer period, the meeting was adjourned.

July 14 2010

Happy Wednesday morning!

We had a great meeting this morning and, thanks to Scott Middleton, President and CEO of AGAPE, we learned a lot about Medicare and Medicaid.  Thanks Jeanette, for arranging such an informative program.  This morning we were all reminded about our blog site, that is being maintained by Dr. Carey Hite (a big T H A N K  Y O U, Carey).  The site has been recently updated with lots and lots of pictures.  In case you don't remember how to get to the blog go to http://www.lmirc.blogspot.com/.  Rod Funderburk is working our our website and will let us know when it is ready.  Thanks, Rod.

Finally. our District Governor, Rick Moore, will be visiting our Club on Wednesday, August 4.  Please,  plan on attending this meeting.  Rick will be joining several of us on the Spirit of Lake Murray the evening before for a dinner cruise.  The cost is $25 per person and is being sponsored by the Greater Irmo Chamber of Commerce.  Tickets are selling fast so please contact GICC at 749-9355 to get tickets.

Yours in Rotary Service,

Judy E. Johnson

Email: jjohnson@babcockcenter.org

July 7 2010

ROTARY CLUB OF LAKE MURRAY/IRMO

Minutes to meeting 7-7-10

President Judy Johnson called the meeting to order and the meeting was opened with prayer by John Adair.  Three guests were introduced, Marshall, Sarah Bickler and Kelly Payne brought a guest.  Health and Happiness was delivered by Lyman Whitehead.

President Judy brought attention to the article about our club in the Irmo News.  Announcements were the visit by the District Governor on August Forth, and a possible evening cruise on Lake Murray the evening before that.

A meeting of the board at Panera at 7:30 am on Thursday was announced.

Rotary Leadership Institute is here in Columbia.

This was club assembly day.  President Judy reminded us that this is not a breakfast club but a service club.  Bill Danielson has offered to try to find ways to get past club presidents more involved.  The officers and club members with supporting roles were introduced and then the meeting broke up into committees for brainstorming about ways to do more service.

June 30 2010

 Lake Murray-Irmo Rotary Club Minutes—June 30, 2010 

Rotary Club President Ginny Barr presided over her last meeting as Club President on June 30, 2010 and a number of presentations and awards were made at the meeting.

Jim Wellman was recognized for his birthday followed by Lynn Richards, who requested volunteers to provide the invocations at club meetings.  Joel Collins presented Maria Hargrave with the Paul Harris Fellow award.

A classification talk was delivered by Kevin Meetze, who was raised in Irmo , attended the Citadel and served in the U.S. Army before returning to the Irmo area.  He and his wife have twins and he volunteers time to coach baseball.  Beetle Bailey presented a banner from the Atlantic City Rotary Club, which he recently visited.

President Ginny acknowledged the Seven Oaks Park personnel for hosting the Rotary meetings and presented a check for $1,000 from the club to support senior programs provided by the Recreation Center.    She also provided plant seedlings for all members in attendance and then recognized all of the officers and club directors for this year.  She noted a number of accomplishments for the year, including development of a leadership program, a database and web site, improvements and modifications in billing procedures, providing support for a South African orphanage, the polio plus program($3,000),  $1,000 for the Haiti Rebuild program,  funding for the  Babcock Center, and the YMCA triathlon.  There were 17 new Paul Harris fellows this year, and the club has 100% of its members as sustaining members to support the Paul Harris Foundation.  The club continued to support the Interact Club and a video was produced by the DJJ Interact Club.  Three members had perfect attendance for over 15 years —Lyman Whitehead, Jeanette Coulter, and Lynn Campbell.

President Ginny presented Jim Wellman with an apron acknowledging his “grillmaster status” as the premier outdoor chef, the Club’s leadership award was presented to Jeff Baldwin, who coordinated the Tour de Lake event, which raised $3,500 and involved 90% of the club membership.   The Rotarian of the Year award was presented to Rod Funderburk, the 10^th president of the club, who will also be the assistant District Governor next year.

Rod administered the oath of office for incoming President Judy Johnson.   President Judy then recognized the officers and the club directors for the new year.  The new officers include vice president Larry Stohs, president elect Jeanette Coulter, secretary Jay Seward, treasurer Reid Danielson, Sergeant At Arms Darren Bouknight, Immediate past president Ginny Barr, and By-Laws and Insurance Jeff Allen.  The new club directors are Rod Funderburk, administration, Jacqueline Kleynenberg, public relations, Michael Cromer, membership, Ginny Barr, foundation, Bentley Murrell, fund raising, Jim Wellman, club service, Chris King, small gifts and grants committee.

June 16 2010

Subject: Meeting Minutes

Rotary Club of Lake Murray-Irmo

Meeting Minutes

June 16, 2010

The meeting of June 16 was called to order by President (only two more weeks!) Ginny Barr.

President Ginny then called on Rev. Jim Gadsden who delivered an inspiring and heart-warming invocation which was followed by the Pledge of Allegiance given in unison by the Club.

President Ginny then called on Darren Bouknight to introduce our guests including the CEO of the Beetle Bailey household, his wife Debra. 

Health and Happiness was delivered eloquently by Jacqueline as she told us about "Honey, what's for dinner?"  If you weren't there you should call her to hear it.  She then asked if there were any Happy Dollars and HD's were volunteered by Joel Collins, Stan Bugner, Beetle, Skey Caskey, Rev. Gadsden, Larry Stohs, and Jacqueline herself as she told us she was happy because her Dad's surgery had gone well.

President Ginny announced the dates of the next two Rotary Board Meetings, the first one on this coming Friday, the last meeting of the past year's board, and the second one the following Thursday, the first meeting of next year's board.  She then announced that our Club had sent flowers to the home of John Hanson in honor of the newest family addition to their household.

President Ginny then called on Beetle to come forward with Melissa Hulon, where Melissa was inducted into the Club and then announced as the newest Rotarian.

President Ginny then called on Kevin Meetze to introduce Michael Davis with Boys Farm, near Newberry, SC.  Michael told us he and his wife had originally come to Boys Farm to be house parents, living in one of the cottages with 6-8 boys.  Their boys and all of the other boys living in the other cottages are taught values of family and friends, discipline and love, teamwork, manners, hard work, education, caring for our environment and animals, and respect for themselves and others -- while emphasizing a close relationship with God.

Michael then called on Kevin to come up and share his personal experiences with Boys Farm.  Five years ago Kevin and his family decided to get involved at Boys Farm and is currently helping coordinate the construction of what is called The Pond House, a modest house that will allow parents of the boys to visit and have a place to stay on campus.

At the end of the presentation, our member John Adair volunteered to give them a piano when The Pond House is completed.

The meeting was adjourned.

Reporter - Larry Stohs