April 1 2009

The meeting was called to order by President Eddie and the invocation was offered by Patty Cavanaugh. John Hanson then introduced our guests, which included Bentley Murrell and Marci Medway from the Five Points Club, Scott and Jay Downs, and then two guests invited by Joel Collins including last week's speaker Roi Canty from Ascension Hospice & The Lodge at Ascension, and Christian Stegmeier, an attorney who works with Joel in his law practice.

Blount Shepard was then called on to announce the next Adopt -a-Highway Clean-up Saturday and promised a breakfast that would be "to die for". I think I'm goin'!!!

President Eddie then announced "Happy Dollars time" and numerous members reported they were happy for various family members doing various achievements but the high-light was when President Eddie announced that he was contributing a happy "five dollars" because he had forgotten to call on Lynn Richards to give us Health and Happiness in the earlier time slot. So Eddie then called on Lynn and she said a card was available to sign, going to Bill Kopleman, and then gave us several tips on how to pull an April Fools prank on our fellow workers back at the office. I am sure we all immediately went back to the office and made our fellow workers feel really foolish.

President Eddie then turned the meeting over to Ginny Barr to introduce our speaker who was David A. Thomas, Special Agent in Charge of the Columbia Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in South Carolina. He said many people don"t even realize there is an FBI Group here in Columbia but they have 300 employees here, and they work closely with the Sheriff's Departments of both Richland and Lexington Counties, SCLED, and also local police departments. Mr. Thomas has over twenty years experience in the FBI, and although he has been Special Agent in Charge in several cities including St. Louis, he feels his tenure here in Columbia has been the best experience in his career.

Mr. Thomas has a wealth of experience in Ciber Crime Investigation and has assisted in the Ciber arena in fifty different countries. He spoke of Russia breaking into computors in the USA and referred to that practice as a "War Offense." He used a term of "Reverse Engineering" as a process and talked of intelligence devices, finding how they worked, and then how they would find a way to "jam" them.

Mr. Thomas talked of the FBI needing a gemologist to deal with jewel thieves so they sent him to different schools around the world to become a gemologist. They trained agents for covert entry and he said at one point he had to give mouth-to-mouth to a dog, because to enter a residence under suspicion, first they had to defuse a watch dog and when they were ready to leave the property they had to revive the dog so it would be like they had never been there. This practice gives new meaning to the term "Dog Breath".

Mr. Thomas talked of using the FBI intelligence initiative, on one hand, in Afghanistan, where maybe 10% of their 30,000 employees worldwide are used internationally to, on the other hand, making a contribution locally for gang related activities.

He also talked of keeping your computors at home safe by using anti-virus methods and keeping them updated. He said they have arrested some SPAM offenders that were making $500,000 - 750,000 per month from the hits to their somehow believable garbage offered because some people fall prey to these wonderful offers. His suggestion was to turn you computor off when not is use. Also when you use your credit card on line you might want to use "credit stops" to limit your exposure. I guess this makes some of us feel like we are walking around naked. How do you feel?

Meeting adjourned.

Larry Stohs

March 25

By: Clark Kent
Special Reporter for the Daily Planet

Our guest speaker was Roi Canty from Ascension Hospice & The Lodge at Ascension. Ms Canty, the Hospital Liaison for Ascension, described this Irmo business as being only one of two in-patient Hospice facilities in the Columbia market and the types of care and service offered by her company. Ascension moved last year to their new facilities on Woodrow Street. Ms Canty explained the various levels of Senior care that her company provides from the entry levels of Assisted Living at their facility known as The Lodge at Ascension to end-of-life services in their adjoining 14 bed Hospice facility. In addition to the Irmo facilities, Ascension offers in-home Hospice care throughout parts of South Carolina with offices located in Florence and Rock Hill.

The Lodge at Ascension provides 24 hour skilled care as well as having a medical doctor on staff. She stated that a majority of their patients are “private pay” and the average cost runs about $2400 per month depending on the level of services provided to the individual. Ms Canty indicated that the demographics of the “typical” assisted living resident was an 80 year old widowed female who may end up being a resident for a number of years. However, this is much different with their Hospice in-patient care unit where the stay is much shorter…10 days to two weeks. Ms Canty invited individual Rotary members to visit the Ascension facility for a private tour.

In other matters to come before the Club, President Eddie gave an update on the District Conference that was held in Columbia last week. He described the various events held over the two day period and thanked the members who attended. The Lake Murray-Irmo Rotary Club was the recipient of three awards; The Governors Citation, the Presidents Citation, and the silver Literacy Award were proudly accepted by President Eddie. Our Club was also recognized for sponsoring two of the three current Ambassadorial Scholarship students studying abroad at this time. President-elect Ginny Barr discussed the picture display board that chronological the Club’s recent past events. She thanked Debra Bailey for her work in putting the display together which was one of the better displays that was exhibited. Next year’s district Conference will be held in Myrtle Beach.

We also had two “classification” presentations. Michael Cromer, one of our newest Club members is the Commercial Banking Manager at First Community Bank on Lake Murray Boulevard. Originally from Chapin, Michael holds a degree in Finance from Clemson University, is married with two children (ages six and nine). Rod Funderburk, a Charter Member of the Lake Murray Rotary Club in 1989 spoke about his long professional career at the former Allied Chemical plant on St. Andrews Road, which according to Rod, has undergone 19 different name changes over the years. Rod held numerous mulit-plant managerial positions with the company and its successors over the years before retiring. Rod is now an energy management consultant with Resource Supply Management Rod is a former President of the Lake Murray Rotary Club and has done about everything at the club and district level over the years. Needless to say that this column would be too long to even attempt to list the numerous contributions to Rotary that has been unselfishly been made by Rod as he has exemplified the true meaning of “Service above Self”.

March 11 2009

March 11, 2009
Reporter: Scott Moseley

Joel Price gave our invocation and John Hanson introduced our visitors. Douglas Brown is a student at USC and is interested in a Rotary scholarship. Spencer McClay is Mike’s younger son and a former Rotary exchange student to Finland.

Lynn Richards provided our Health and Happiness. Lyman’s wife JoAnne is in the hospital and we need to keep her in our prayers. We were given a health update on Bill Kopleman and asked to keep him and his family in our thoughts and prayers.

President Eddie reminded us to donate to the C.A.R.T. Fund. Lynn Campbell made President Eddie live up to a bet. Eddie wore a Wake Forest hat the entire meeting because Wake beat Clemson in basketball last week.





President-Elect Ginny Barr represented our club at the President Elect Training Seminar in Myrtle Beach this past weekend. She gave us some information on the upcoming Rotary year and the new slogan “The Future of Rotary is in Your Hands”.

President Eddie wanted to notify the club that there will be NO MEETING next week, Wednesday the 18th due to the district conference.

John Adair and Joel Price each entertained us with their classification talks-Pizza, Piano, Price and Post Office.

Past President Chris Joye introduced our speaker Jonathan Mauger of the Boy’s Farm in Newberry. Jonathan gave a great talk about the Boy’s Farm and its 50 year history of helping ‘Build Boy’s rather than Mend Men’. He thanked the club for the $400 donation made to the Boy’s Farm.

Rotary Bowling Tournament

Thanks to all of the Rotarians, their family members and friends who supported our Bowling Tournament this past Saturday. We had 22 lanes filled with lots of folks having a great time. It was so great to see folks, of all ages, having fun together and at the same time, donating to our Rotary Club. Thanks to the generosity of many of you, we netted a profit of $2200. Special thanks to Eddie Robinson, his wife Cynthia and Jeanette Coulter who helped a great deal Saturday with the tournament. I couldn't have done it without you!

Spirit Winners

Mar 4th 2009

Reporter: Lynn Campbell
3/4/09

The meeting was opened by President Eddie with the invocation given by Bob Berry. Guests were introduced and welcomed to Lake Murray-Irmo Rotary.

Lyman Whitehead's health and happiness caused our president some concern- a story about turpentine and a cat's rear end!! Enough said.

Judy Johnson reported the bowling fundraiser netted over $2200. Thanks Judy for a job well done. Chris Spearman was inducted as our newest member and welcomed by the club.

John Adair introduced those teachers being honored during Teacher
Recognition- they were:

Gordon Farley Dutch Fork Elementary School
Laura Adair Irmo Elementary School
Tracy Frick Harbison West Elementary
Erica Millwood Leaphart Elementary School
Sandy Rickenbaker Dutch Fork High School
Johnny Cooley Irmo Middle School
Hope Lights H.E. Corley Elementary School
Matt Gams Chapin Elementary School
Paulette Moses Ballentine Elementary




John then introduced our speaker Dr. Sandy Breazeale, LPC who told of her dad dropping out of high school and her mother being the first of her family to graduate.

She said expectations of her were the same until she encountered those teachers that changed her outlook on who she was and what she could accomplish in life.

During high school, she was selected to girls state and then to head girls nation. She stated that most of those selected were from the best families who valued education. Her teachers had turned her from the ordinary into the extraordinary.

The meeting ended with Happy dollars- the most unusual was Joel Collins reporting his son Drew was selected in a bachelor auction for $7,000 -That's better than the Dad!

Pic from Dec 3 2008

The meeting was opened by President Eddie Robinson. Skey Caskey gave the invocation by leading the Club in the Lord’s Prayer. Lyman Whitehead offered health and happiness. Most notably, Lynn Richards told us that it was her birthday. President Eddie informed the club that Lynn Campbell’s wife was undergoing surgery and asked that we keep them in our prayers. Ginny Barr gave us instructions about the meeting on 12/10 at DJJ. They have a new Visitors Center , which changes where we will meet and the procedures involved in entering the facility. Emilie Keene reminded us of the Christmas Party on 12/15 and said she would email directions to the site. President Eddie announced that Kevin Adams received a promotion and would be moving his Rotary membership to Lexington. Best of luck to Kevin. President Eddie and Ginny Barr inducted a new member, Irmo Police Chief Bryan Buck. Victories in the previous Saturday’s football games brought in many happy dollars from fans of Georgia Tech, NC State and Clemson.
Carey Hite introduced our speaker, John Singerling. John is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Palmetto Health Richland. He has been with Palmetto Health since 1996 and became executive vice president and chief operating officer for Palmetto Health Richland on January 1, 2006. He previously was vice president of operations for Palmetto Health Richland. Prior to that, he worked as corporate director of planning and system development and assistant to the president and CEO for Palmetto Health. Singerling earned a bachelor's degree from Michigan State University and a master's degree in Health Administration from the University of South Carolina. John recognized Judy Smith, Corporate Communications at Palmetto Health, who accompanied him to the meeting. He noted that a number of the Club’s members work at or are affiliated with Palmetto Health.
John told us that Palmetto Health is South Carolina's largest and most comprehensive not-for-profit health resource. Palmetto Health is composed of three outstanding hospitals—Palmetto Health Richland, and Palmetto Health Baptist in Columbia and Easley. The 1,247-bed system is a JCAHO accredited institution with more than 9,000 employees and 1,200 physicians.
Each year, the three hospitals treat more than a half million patients, welcome more than 7,200 babies into the world, treat more than 82,000 pediatric patients and 3,000 cancer patients, accommodate more than 142,000 emergency department visits, perform nearly 50,000 mammograms, and make nearly 38,000 home care visits. They provide all services except they are not a burn center and do not perform transplants.
Two years ago, Chuck Beaman was promoted to President and CEO of Palmetto Health. Under his leadership a new 3 year plan was developed to improve service. Top performing employees in the system drafted Standards of Behavior and each employee must sign this document or be terminated. A Leadership Institute was also launched and approximately 1,000 employees have attended over the past two years. Since enactment of these measures, Palmetto Health has seen a marked increase in its quality ranking, significant improvement in employee morale and increased results for patients. They recently received an award as one of the best places to work from Modern Healthcare Magazine. The Children’s Hospital has finally opened after 20 years and the State granted them authority to build a 76-bed hospital in Irmo, Parkridge Hospital; however, Lexington and Newberry are challenging that decision. The challenge will be addressed early in 2009. John offered many statistics to substantiate the improvement at Palmetto Health over the past couple of years and to show the significant growth in their business.
Blount Sheperd announced that the Club would have its final road-clean-up of the year on 12/13. Meet at Blount’s business in Ballentine at 8 AM for coffee, donuts and a surprise. In conclusion, Jim Wellman asked that everyone complete the survey that was email to the Club regarding future projects.

Feb 18 2009

Meeting was called to order by President Eddie Robinson. Invocation was delivered by Jeff Baldwin that was followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.
John Hanson introduced Cynthia Robinson, Chris Spearman, and Lori Alexander as guests.
Health and Happiness was given by Lyman Whitehead.
Reminder by President Eddie of the Board Meeting being held Friday February 20, 2009 at 7:30 at Panera Bread.
An update on Bill Kopelman was given to the club.
Judy Johnson reminded the club of the bowling tournament to be held Saturday February 28, 2009 from 2-5 at Anchor Lanes. Sponsors and volunteers are needed.
Happy Dollars were given by Eddie Robinson, Ginny Barr, Dr. Carey Hite, Barry Johns, Dr. Balbir Minhas, Beetle Bailey, Lyn Richards, and Larry Stohs.
President Eddie introduced Christina Melton, Principal of Nursery Road Elementary School “Champions”. Presently there are approximately 540 students enrolled at Nursery Road Elementary and they range from 4 year old kindergarteners to fifth graders. Fifty-five percent are Caucasian and 45% are African American with a few students classified as “other”. Thirty-eight percent of these students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Nursery Road Elementary offers a variety of programs to motivate students. Some of these include: PreGame, GOLD (Goal Oriented Leadership Development), and pinning ceremonies. They also face many challenges. Their PACT scores decreased 13% in language arts, math, science, and social studies; they have missed their AYP Federal requirements two years in a row; and District 5 reports a 2.8% dropout rate for high school students.
Lake Murray-Irmo Rotary Club has chosen to partner with Nursery Road Elementary School to offer additional funds and donate time to assist with programs and/or students. President Eddie will discuss their specific needs at a later meeting.
Meeting adjourned by President Eddie.

Feb 11 2009

Ginny Barr, Chris Joye, Dr. Kathleen Hayes

Lake Murray – Irmo Rotary Club Meeting February 11, 2009

Submitted by Harold Crawford

President Robinson called the meeting to order. Si Amick opened the meeting with a prayer that was followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.

John Hanson introduced all visitors, and Lyman Whitehead entertained us with Health and Happiness.

President Robinson asked each of us to remember Bill Kopelman who is beginning his treatments. We will all keep Bill in our prayers.

Judy Johnson spoke of the upcoming bowling event on Saturday, February 28, at 2:00 PM at Anchor Lanes in Irmo. Rotarians can sponsor teams or play individually.

President Robinson reminded everyone of the District Conference Friday Luncheon. The club will be picking up the expense for the lunch.

Classification Talks were delivered by both Chris King and Ray Hunt.

Former President Chris Joye introduced our speaker, Dr. Kathleen Hayes, State Director of the SC Department of Social Services. Dr. Hayes has dedicated her professional career to improving the wellbeing of the state’s most vulnerable citizens, especially at risk children – in child protective services, foster care, adoption, and to those in the custody of the juvenile justice system.

As director of DSS, Dr. Hayes oversees an agency of 4400 employees which serves more than 800,000 citizens in South Carolina, with an annual budget of $1.2 billion. The DSS programs she supervises includes: child welfare services, including adoption, foster care, child protective services, family preservation and case management; adult protective services, protecting and maintaining the safety of vulnerable adults from abuse and financial exploitation; child support enforcement, including the establishing of child support orders, collection from non-custodial parents, paternity establishment and parent locate services; child care regulatory and licensing services; and temporary assistance to needy families in the form of SNAP benefits, and monetary assistance.

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

Feb 4 2009

Publish Post

Jan 28 2009

January 28, 2009
Reporter Si Amick

President Robinson called upon Scott Mosley to open the meeting with a word of prayer followed by the pledge of allegiance. John Hanson asked that all remember to contribute to the cart fund each week and then introduced the visitors. Lynn did a wonderful job with health and happiness and now we all know we still have a major problem in Washington.

Remember the district conference is May,19 2009. Please see Jeanette Coulter about registration.

We had two classification speeches by Mr. Jeff Baldwin and Chief Brian Buck. Both did a wonderful job and it is always interesting to learn about the personal lives of our members.

President Robinson presided over the induction of our two newest members Zeke Riddle and Michael Cromer. Zeke is with Prudential Palmetto Realtors and Michael is with First Community Bank. A warm Rotary welcome to you both.

Lynn Richards introduced her husband, Dr. John E. Richards as our speaker.

Dr. Richards is the Interim Chair at USC’s Psychology Department where his primary studies are the brain activities of infants. He has been instrumental in obtaining major grants for the USC’s Psychology Department for this important work. He performed test on Ginny and Eddie, which they both passed with flying colors. We must remember these are the same test that one year old children routinely pass.

Dr. Richards is currently the principal investigator on two research grants. A grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, focuses on the development of sustained attention in infants ranging in ages from two to six months. Dr. Richards also received a grant from the National Science Foundation, Major Research Instrumentation Award, to develop a high-density EEG/ERP laboratory for the study of developmental cognitive neuroscience.

Dr. Richards has three related research themes:
• The first theme is the development of sustained attention in young infants. This attention phase may be distinguished from other types of attention (e.g., stimulus orienting, automatic interrupt, attention termination). Sustained attention shows developmental changes from 2 to 6 months of age and is closely related to changes in the brain centers controlling attention.

• The second theme is the development of extended fixations to television programs in the first two years. Young infants do not distinguish between abstract patterns and story-like television programs, but at the end of two years young children do.
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• Third, Dr. Richards is now using EEG and ERP in the study of saccade planning, its development in the first few months of infancy, and its relation to cortical areas controlling eye movements. He also is using structural MRI of infants along with ERP to study the cortical sources of the behavior associated with planned eye movements.

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.

Adopt a Highway December 2008

Nov 19 2008

Rotary Minutes 11-19-08

President Eddie made an important announcement at the beginning of the November 19 meeting of the Lake Murray-Irmo Rotary Club. This information was a reminder that there will be no meeting next week, November 26, in celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Emilie Keene informed Rotarians of the Christmas party that will be held Monday evening, December 15, at Chestnut Hill Plantation. Plans are to start at 6-6:30 p.m.

A special donation was made from our club to the Meals on Wheels program at the Senior Services Divsion of the Irmo-Chapin Recreation Commission.

The program was given by Chief Daniel Johnson, Chief Deputy at the Richland County Sheriff's Department. Chief Johnson discussed the benefits of his experience as a GSE member on a team to Sweden in 2004. He summed up his experience as "Challenging Your Limits While Expanding Your Boundaries." He has found traveling internationally and experiencing new cultures to be most beneficial not only to him personally but also to the law enforcement profession. Sheriff Lott has been most influential in allowing law enforcement officers to participate in various international cultural exchange trips. Chief Johnson pointed out our need for global experience in the global world of the 21st century. It is important for employees to care globally, and learning about other cultures helps to facilitate that attitude. The Richland County Sheriff's Department has implemented several new policies learned from law enforcement agencies of other countries. Chief Johnson encouraged Rotarians to participate as GSE team leaders and to recommend non-Rotarian employees to serve as team members.

Nov 12 2008

rotary nov 12

The meeting was called to order by president Eddie Robinson. The invocation was presented by John Adair. Health and happiness was well received from Lyman Whitehead.

Joel Collins congratulated Eddie Robinson on behalf of the club for receiving the prestigious “Distinguished Service Award” from the Clemson Alumni Club.

We were reminded of our Christmas Party at Chestnut Hills Monday, Dec 15, 6:30 PM.

We were also reminded of Rotary’s requirement to attend at least 50 % of the meetings; we can make up, even on the internet.

Two prospective new members are Charlene Amick, RN, Clinical documentation specialist, and Brian Buck, Irmo Chief of Police.

Laura Adair was our guest speaker. Laura is a media specialist at Irmo elementary school. She is also “Teacher of the Year”. Laura presented slides and an interesting presentation of some of the responsibilities of a media specialist, such as : maintaining the library, researching sources, internet oversight, circulation desk, assist teachers, help with biographies, computer lab, and other responsibilities. Although Laura says the internet is gaining in importance, she fells books will always be with us.

Meeting was adjourned at 8:30 AM.

Reporter: Mike McClay

November 5 2008

ROTARY MINUTES 11/05/08

The meeting was called to order by President Eddie Robinson. Health and Happiness was presented by Lyman Whitehead. Judy Johnson reminded the membership of the Irmo Chamber Auction on November 13.

Classification Talks were delivered by Bill Kopelman at Carolina First and Brooks Williams at Ballentine Group.

The Interact Group at DJJ raised funds and their current Preisdent presented a check for $300 to Special Olympics. The Interact Group challenged the Rotary Membership to meet that donation and the Membership donated $328.

Our speaker was Elliott Epps, Director of City Year.

In 1994 Elliott attended a Servathon and embraced the idea of 1 year of service to the community. City Year encourages young people (18 – 25 years) to give 1 year of service and leadership to country. Columbia’s City Year program is one of 18 in the United States. It gives young people a chance to make a change for the good of the world.

For more information their website is www.cityyear.org

October 29 2008

October 29, 2008 – Minutes for the Lake Murray Rotary Club Meeting. Submitted by Lyn Richards.

The meeting was opened with our invocation given by Chris Joye. John Hanson introduced our visitors, and this being the Wednesday before the election, we were graced with the presence of Political candidates Joe Wilson and Chip Huggins, along with other visitors. Lyman delivered health and happiness. Jay Stewart has transferred his membership to our club, and was congratulated and welcomed by President Eddy. Kelly Payne was congratulated on being selected as Walmart’s Teacher of the Year. Patty Cavanaugh made a special presentation to Joel Collins as a Rotary Foundation Benefactor.

Happy Dollars were led by Judy Johnson, who gave out “treats”, including an ornament in support of the Babcock Center. Contributions were lively.

Our speaker, Converse A. Chellis, III, the South Carolina State Treasurer, was introduced by Lyman Whitehead. Mr. Chellis spoke to us about the State Treasurer’s Office on two fronts: some of the interesting accomplishments of the office, and what is going on in Columbia. For Mr. Chellis, safeguarding the assets of South Carolina is paramount.

After weathering two budget cuts of more than 3%, Mr. Chellis’s office has created a task force of 17 people who unanimously created and adopted a plan to fund the “unfunded mandate” of COLAs (cost of living increases) of $9.8 billion, while saving SC taxpayers over $3 billion. The office has returned over $11 million in unclaimed property to SC residents, up from a previous average per year of $6 million. They have attracted more SC residents to the Future Scholars Program. What used to have a 53% participation from non-residents has turned into a 55% participation by residents. He has been actively managing the “Bid South Carolina” program, where banks are encouraged to bid for money that the banks in turn use to loan to consumers. His audit background as a CPA has made it important to him to perform due diligence on the state’s investments. He keeps an eye on preservation of principal as well as maximizing earnings; and he closely monitors reserve accounts for security and adequacy.

In Columbia, he was glad to note that the Budget and Control board did not opt for across-the-board spending cuts, but had targeted spending cuts.

In closing, he stressed the importance of integrity in the State Treasurer’s Office. He cited all the influences in his life that have stressed this attribute: family, church, scouting, team sports, his Citadel education, his CPA profession, and his community service with Rotary.

October 22 2008

President Eddie opened the meeting with the invocation by Jim Gadsden with thePledge of Allegiance following. John Hansen introduced guests, noting the strongpresence of our Interact Club members. Chief Buck of the Irmo Police Deaprtment wasalso introduced. Lyman Whitehead got multiple responses to birthdays andanniversaries, but no divorces noted. He also provided an update on the smartblonde on the golf course. Lynn Campbell updated everyone on the October issue of the Rotarian Magazine withoutsubjecting us to a quiz – that is on the agenda for next month. George Staples gave President Eddie two flags from his recent trip to South Africawhich focused on potential sites for a Rotary sponsored orphanage, an internationalproject involving our Club. Dena Englekens and John Freeman from our Interact Club at Dutch Fork High Schoolgave classification talks with John and our speaker exchanging comments on John'supcoming graduation. Our speaker was Dr. Herb Berg, Interim Superintendent for Lexington-Richland SchoolDistrict V. Herb noted the effort involved over 25+ years to build up the qualityand reputation of our schools, which he vividly demonstrated by comparing homeprices in adjacent communities with school systems not as highly rated as ours. Heprovided background and facts supporting the need for the bond referendum on theballot next month to ensure the quality of our school system does not begin tofalter. The bond will support improvements in some of our older schools, while newbuildings will reduce the student population in others to the number of studentsthat the schools were designed to accommodate. The District V website also providesmore information on the school system and bond issues as well as the views of theSchool Board candidates in the upcoming election.-- Jeffrey W. Baldwin, FACHELighthouse Healthcare Associates, LLC

Oct 15 2008

Rotary Minutes – October 15, 2008

The meeting was called to order by Eddie Robinson and the invocation was given by Lyn Richards.

Ginny Barr presented Perfect Attendance Awards for 07-08 year.

Receiving awards were:

Beetle Bailey

Lynn Campbell

Patty Cavanaugh

Jeannette Coulter

Rod Funderburk

Larry Stohs

Lyman Whitehead

Eddie Robinson inducted two new members to our Club, Bill Kopelman and Brooks Williams.

It was announced that Gov. Sanford would be speaking at the Chapin Sunrise Club on Thursday, 10/16/08, at 7:30 am. All were invited to attend.

New Club Bylaws were distributed for review and discussion. After a few questions, the Bylaws were approved by the club membership. Many thanks to Jeff Allen for his hard work in drafting our new rules.

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.

September 24 2008

Irmo Lake Murray Rotary Club

Meeting Minutes

September 24, 2008

President Eddie Robinson called the meeting to order at 7:45 a.m. followed by the invocation by Theresa Miley

John Hanson introduced several guests and visitors.

Visiting Rotarians:

Jay Seward – Columbia Club

David Braugth Columbia Club

Fred Medway Five Points Club

Lyman Whitehead delivered our Health and Happiness thoughts for the day.

Announcements:

Lyn Campbell shared interesting exerts from an article in The Rotarian Magazine about the personality characteristics of the last 4 generations.

Jim Wellman announced (and pleaded) that we still needed volunteers to man our booth at the Okra Strut Friday and Saturday.

Emily King reminded the club about the Fall Social Wednesday Oct 1^st 5:30 p.m. at Saluda Shoals Park. There will be no morning meeting on the 1^st.

Program

“Shadow Day”
President Robinson introduced John Adair and Kelly Payne who have worked hard on this year’s “Shadow Day”. Dutch Fork High School students spent the day on the job with their Rotarian mentors. John shared inspirational words about the importance of mentoring young people and the positive impact that each of us can have on the lives of others. Several members shared their plans for the day and introduced their Shadows. The program was closed with an inspirational poem read by John’s wife Ellen..

Thanks to John, Kelly and all the members who contributed to this important Rotary function.

Member Student(s)

Judy Johnson Jessica Grant and Ashely Frietas

Maria Hargrave Rachel Baldwin, Hope Stanley, and Alyssa Scott

Bob Berry Reggie Gallant and Terah Counts

Dr. Minhas Kaitlyn Ward, Adrienne Hinton, and Paige Record

Ben Heritage Rachel Brown

Eddie Robinson Sarah Payne, Jordan Riley and Cameron Sandel

Irmo PD Chris Spry, Carlton Gregory, and Christian Greene

Theresa Miley Bradlee Koon

Blount Shepard Kirsten Hulon

John Adair Bobby Grant

Skey Caskey Bobby Livingston

Larry Stohs Ryan Smith

The meeting was adjourned by President Robinson at 8:30 a.m.

Respectfully submitted by:

Jack Terrell

September 17 2008

President, Eddie called the meeting to order and Stan Bugner led us in theinvocation and pledge. The introduction of visitors and guest followed. Emily andCourtney were here pursuing an infamous scholarship from Rotary. Stan Bugner gave us his version of health and happiness. Larry Stohs reminded usabout Shadow Day and invited us to join him in shadowing some of our young folks.Sign up and receive a T-shirt. We also passed around a sign up sheet for Okra Strut.Plan to attend we all have lots of fun. Jenny Barr introduced our speaker Jim Knight. Jim is from the South Carolina Dept.of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. He was here to talk to us about "Illegal Aliensand Private Employment " Census says that South Carolina has the fastest growingillegals, it all boils down to is effected July 1, 2009, The new Law will come intoeffect. that will effect employers who hire illegals. First offense must becorrected with in 3 days. Second offense they shut down the business. If LL&Rdetermines the rules were broken they contact Department of Home Land Security.(Making for a bad day, worse) You can use E-verify service to help business verifypersons. Jim, answered questions form Ben. Kevin, Blunt, Scott and Chip. I just could nothear what was said:) Kelly Pane thanked all who supported the students during a recent project. Meeting adjourned

September 10 2008

Last Meeting
September 10, 2008

Reporter Barry Johns

President Eddie Robinson opened the meeting followed by the invocation by Ginny Barr. John Hanson introduced several guests and visitors. Lyn Richards delivered our Health and Happiness and recognized several birthdays and anniversaries.

Kelly Payne announced that WACH FOX TV has shown an interest in promoting INTERACT. The station may feature INTERACT at Dutch Fork High School.

Okra Strut sign up sheets were passed around to staff the Rotary booth at the Okra Strut. The dates for the event are Friday, September 26 and Saturday, September 27.

John Adair announced that Job Shadow Day for Dutch Fork High School students will be September 24. He encouraged all to participate.

Dr. Minhas spoke of his faith and his personal journey.

INTERACT students, Bobby and Jessica Grant, introduced themselves to the Club and spoke of their families, their interests, and their dreams.

Bill Danielson introduced our guest speaker, Morihiko Nakahara, Director of the South Carolina Philharmonic. Mr. Nakahara spoke of his initial interview process and why he likes Columbia. He explained why the Arts are important, reminding us of the social, educational, and economic impact that the Arts have on our community. He also spent time educating us on the role of a Conductor/Director as he leads in practice and in concerts.

President Eddie Robinson closed the meeting.

September 3 2008

A fine crowd gathered today fo our weekly Rotary breakfast meeting at Seven Oaks Park. Our esteemed President, Eddie Robinson, for those of you who haven't attended in awhile, opened the meeting. Bob Berry gave a thoughtful prayer, thanking the good lord for all our blessings. John Hanson introduced zero guests which is quite unusual. We did, however have a gaggle of Interact students in attendance, which is always nice to see. Kelly Payne gave a brief report on that clubs activities and membership which now stands at over 100 Dutch Fork High Schoolers.

Lyman Whitehead, as always, wowed us with some humor about a couple senior citizens and a Chicken, or was that a Gamecock. We tried to ask Beetle Bailey for confirmation but he was still licking his "Bama" wounds!!

Joel Collins then asked the club to interact more with the interact club kids (and vice versa). We are all creatures of habit and should do a better job of interacting with these great kids. Also, don't forget the Interact club's Kick - Off Party at Gatsbee's on September 15th at 6pm.

Jim Wellman, Okra Strut Chair, showed us the new t-shirt and reminded us of our "service above self" credo. Everyone needs to be active with this years Okra Strut on the last weekend of September. Sign up sheets will be forth coming.

John Adair provided a wonderful educational meeting last week and our thanks go out to him and his lovely wife for hosting the club. He also mentioned "Shadow Day" coming up on September 24. Please sign up. That is a fun half day with the leaders of tomorrow!

Happy dollars galore got kicked off by "yours truly" and continued until almost lunch time. I demanded an accounting from President Eddie but he was last seen boarding a flight to Mexico, I think.

Our speaker was Kim Bowers of our host location, the Irmo Chapin Recreation Commission. He heads up the Senior Services division. Kim discussed the ICRC's Council on Aging, one of only four statewide affiliated with a recreational department. They provide both generational programs as well as community involvement programs. Some of the services provided include, Meals on Wheels, nutritional and phsical activities, temporary medical equipment, case managers, senior games and Project Love (Let Older Volunteers Educate) with Leaphart and Chapin Elementary schools. Many questions followed. It is great to see services expanded for our senior citizens and better yet to volunteer to serve them.

The meeting was adjourned by President Eddie. Next week, September 10th, we are very excited to have the new Maestro of the SC Philharmonic, Morihiko Nakahara speak at our club. I will be introducing him as I have begun to get to know him since I am on the Board of Directors of the Philharmonic. Fellow Board Member, Harold Crawford and I ask that you all attend to meet Morahiko, he is a talented and energetic guy. I look forward to seeing you there.

Past President
Bill Danielson

August 27 2008

Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Rotary Club of Lake Murray- Irmo
Vocational Service Off-Site Visit
Adair Piano

President Eddie Robinson called the meeting to order. Visitors and Interact students were introduced and welcomed to the meeting. The breakfast meeting was conducted in the Parish Hall at Mt. Olive Lutheran Church

2nd Annual Interact Club Kickoff
Kelly Payne reported that the 2nd Annual Interact Club Kickoff was scheduled for Monday, September 15, 2008 from 6pm – 9pm. The kick off will be held at Gatsbee’s Restaurant located at 7585 Saint Andrews Road, Irmo, SC. The lasagna dinner is $5 per person. Kelly encouraged club members to get involved with this event to welcome the Interact members back and to encourage them. If you would like more information contact Kelly Payne the Interact/Rotary Advisor at 803.767.0875.

Okra Strutt
Jim Wellman reported that the Rotary Club of Lake Murray-Irmo would be selling t-shirts at the Okra Strutt this year. A sign up sheet will be passed around during the September 3, 2008 meeting. Jim provided a sample of the t-shirt design for club members to preview.

Health and Happiness
Health and happiness was given by Lyman Whitehead.

Shadow Day
John Adair reminded the club that Shadow Day was scheduled for Wednesday, September 24, 2008. John indicated that he needed additional volunteers (about 12) to sign up to allow a student to shadow them for half of a day.

Classification Speeches
Nathan Ballentine and Emilie Keene both conducted classification speeches during the meeting.

On Site Vocational Tour of Adair Piano
When the business meeting was adjourned the club moved to Adair Piano for the on-site vocational tour of Adair Piano. John and Ellen Adair welcomed Rotary members to their store and provided a tour of the facility and an overview of: craftsman architecture, history of building, history of the piano, history of the business, new players and products, digital and musical instrument digital interface. Ellen Adair provided a demonstration of the Rinky Tinky Piano.

John Adair reported that the next off site visit would be at the Lake Murray Dam and Bob Moseley was coordinating that for the club.

Reporter – Marylou Stinson