Feb 10, 2010

The Rotary Club of Lake Murray - Irmo

Meeting Minutes:  February 10, 2010

President Ginny Barr called meeting to order.

Patty Cavanaugh gave the invocation.

John Hanson introduced the two guests,  Mellissa Hulon  & Bob Milhouse

Lyman Whitehead entertained us with his comments on Health and Happiness. He also collected Happy Dollars from members.

Announcements:

-          Update on Bill Kopelman, good test results.

-          Jim Wellman Update on Meals on Wheels.

-          Judy Johnson gave an update on “Pins for Polio” Going well.

-          Irmo ROTC update.  They will be marching for 24 hrs to raise money for the Honor Flight on 4/10

-           Blount Shepard gave an update on Adopt A Highway pickup on Feb. 13 at 8:00am starting at Shepard & Associates.

-          Larry Stohs gave update on Paul Harris Fellow points program to try to have club become 100% PH Fellows.

-          Eddie Robinson updated members with handouts on “Shuckin’ on The Shoal” Feb 28.

-          Ginny Bar gave brief over view about Tour De Lake to be held on April 24, 2010. Had members break out into small groups to discuss ideas and questions with reference to the bike rally.

Ginny Barr Closed the Meeting. 

Feb 3 2010

Rotary Club of Lake Murray-Irmo

Minutes of 2-3-10 meeting

President Ginny Barr called the meeting to order.    Barry Johns gave the invocation.    “Health and Happiness” was led by Jacqueline Kleynenberg.   Rotarian Jeanette Coulter and her husband, Jerry will be celebrating their 30^th wedding anniversary this week and Chris Spearman and his wife will also be celebrating their anniversary.   John Lafond, District representative, recognized Ben Herritage for becoming a member of the Bequest Society for his generous donation to the Permanent Fund.  Maria Hargrave gave her classification speech.

  Judy Johnson reminded members of the upcoming “Pins for Polio” tournament scheduled for Saturday, February 27 from 2-5 at Anchor Lanes.  Team sponsors and bowlers are needed and 100% member participation is being requested.  Brochures for the “Tour de Lake” Bicycle rally were distributed along with sponsor forms.  Team leaders of the “tour de Lake” were asked to stay for a meeting immediately following this morning’s meeting.

Representative Nathan Ballentine introduced the guest speaker.  Mary Louise Resch, Government Relations and grant Specialist from Harvest Hope Food Bank gave an excellent presentation.  Her organization serves 20 counties in South Carolina and is the largest Food Bank in SC.  In 2009 the Harvest Hope Food Bank served 725,567 families in need which was a 76% increase since 2008.  This number represented 3,158,487 individuals which was also a 144% increase compared to last year.

Judy Johnson, President elect

Reporter

Post Rally Clean-up

Post Rally Gathering Group

Web Site Administration Cell

Publicity Cell Committee

Finance Cell Committee

Legal Cell Committee

Racecourse Cell Committee

Sponsorship Cell Committee

Coordination Group Committee

Rally Day Management Committee

Jan 13 2010

The meeting was opened by President Ginny
Health and Happiness - Beetle Bailey celebrates a birthday..............isn't he always celebrating something?
Joke of the day included a limp duck and a veterinarian.
Blount Sheppard - Next road clean up is Feb 13th.
Meals on Wheels - sign up to volunteer.
Board Meeting - this Friday at Panera Bread
Our new Secretary unveiled - Jay Seward
Classification Talk - Bill Brooks
Bike Rally Project - Jeff Baldwin separated us into our groups to prepare for the upcoming bike rally.
Meeting Adjourned

Jan 6 2010

Lake Murray –Irmo Rotary Club Meeting Report for January 6, 2010

The Meeting was called to order by President Ginny Barr promptly at 7:30 AM. The invocation was offered by John Adair. The day’s speaker, Dr. Kay Shaw, was introduced by President Barr. Dr.Shaw’s subject was “Personal Pathways” , a systematic approach to affording guidance to public school students in selecting a course of study which aligns with their vocational interests. She provided interesting insights into how the students can be guided in their course of study to obtain the maximum benefit of their education in preparing them for vocations that they indicate an interest and Aptitude in. Dr. Shaw explained the “Personal Pathways” approach to guiding students in their course of studies so that their education facilitates their preparation for pursuit of their vocational interests and help them achieve professional capabilities that align with their Inherent interests and inclinations. Student records of career interests were shown for some 16 career areas. The top areas for the past two years were Health Sciences, the Arts and Science, Technology and Engineering.

Using this systematic approach to student guidance is a means of giving students an individualized approach to graduation plans that matches their interests and capabilities.

December 16 2009

President Ginny called the meeting to order, Marylou Stinson led us in prayer and pledge; Jacqueline Kleynenberg conducted health and happiness and Happy Dollar. Darren Bouknight recognized our guests. Several announcements regarding club programs were made; Blount Sheppard informed our group the Adopt A Highway project for this Saturday is postponed due to the expected weather. Jim Wellman asked for volunteers to sign up to deliver Meal On Wheels.

President Ginny recognized our Club members with perfect attendance records. For this past year those recognized were:
John Adair, Beetle Bailey, Bill Brooks, Patty Cavanaugh, Reid Danielson, John Hanson, Judy Johnson, Eddie Robinson, Jay Seward, Larry Stohs and Jim Wellman.
Lyman Whitehead 16 year’s of perfect attendance!
Janette Coulter 19 years!
Lynn Campbell 20 years!

President Ginny then introduced the Department of Juvenile Justice Interact Club members to recognize their accomplishment of winning the Rotary Fall Video Contest. We viewed the video and then were spoken to by three DJJ Interact members who expressed their appreciation to our Club for the support and how much they feel this opportunity is helping them make progress in changing their lives.

We then broke into planning groups for the “Club Assembly” to prepare for the great bike ride project.

The meeting was then adjourned.

Christmas Party 2009

December 2 2009

Notes from the Lake Murray Irmo Rotary Club 12-2-09 Meeting

After President Ginny Barr called the meeting to order, Lynn Campbell led in prayer. Darren Bouknight introduced the guests. Jacqueline Kleynenberg led the group in Health and Happiness and a time of Happy Dollars. During Happy Dollars, Jeff Baldwin provided an update on Bill Kopelman. Joel Collins provided the club with information on the Rotary Foundation and Patty Cavanaugh handed out individual foundation contribution status pages. Joel challenged the club to become 100% Paul Harris Fellow contributors.

The last adopt-a-highway for 2009 will be held this Saturday, December 5. Please meet at Blount Sheperd’s office at 8:00 am. The club Christmas party will be held Monday, December 14 at 6:30 pm at the Chestnut Hills Club House.

Our speaker for the morning was Dr. Burk Dial, who talked about the Palmetto Richland Gamma Knife program. Richland has had the only gamma knife in the state for ten years. The gamma knife offers an alternative to whole brain radiation treatment for metastasized tumors in the brain. The gamma knife provides 192 low dosage penetrations which converge on the tumor providing a high dosage radiation to the tumor without damaging the cells through which the laser passes. According to Dr. Dial, whole brain radiation treatment can only be applied to a patient one time while gamma knife radiation treatment can be applied multiple times. The accuracy of the gamma knife is less than one millimeter and the success rate is very high. We need to thank Maris Hargrave for arranging this very informative program.

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

October 21 2009

October 14 2009

President Ginny called the meeting to order at 7:45. Patty Cavanaugh gave the invocation and led in the Pledge of Allegiance. Lyman Whitehead shared Health & Happiness with us with two"stories". Emillie Keene gave her Classification Speech. The following announcements were made:

Meals on Wheels- Please contact Jim Wellman

Fall Social- 10/22/09 at Saluda Shoals - 6:PM to 9PM

Shadow Day - October 28, 2009- Please sign up

PolioPlus Fund Raiser- 02/2010- Bowling Tournament-TBA

Earth Day/Bicycle Rally - 04/24/2010

Beth Padgett, Executive Director of Community Mediation Center was our speaker. The mission of the center is to help individuals and organizations resolve conflicts, improve relationships and strengthen communities. The center is located at 4801 Colonial Drive, Columbia, S.C.. Beth's telephone number is 803-714-1176.

Respectively Submitted by:

Jeanette M Coulter

Recent pictures from our Meeting at Alodias

Sep 30 2009 Meeting at Alodia's

September 23rd

September 23, 2009

Rotary Club of Lake Murray-Irmo

President Ginny called the meeting to order at 7:45 am. John Adair gave the invocation and led us with the pledge of allegiance. Lyman Whitehead gave a quick dose of Health and Happiness and Happy Dollars. Darren Morris was the lead off (our guest speaker) along with Nathan, Joel, Skey, Carrie, and Lyman.

President Ginny reminded us about next weeks meeting... its going to be at Alodia's Cucina. President Ginny passed around a sign up sheet for Meals on Wheels. Jim Wellman gave us an up-date on Okra-Man Struttin (this Weekend Sept. 25, 26 2009.... Friday/Saturday).

Chip Lyerly is a proud new Grandfather!

October 28 is our Shadow-Day program. Don't forget to sign-up!

George Staples reminded us about the project in Durban, South Africa for children with AIDS. We partnered with the Spring Valley Club to establish the project with $3,000. With the Matching Grant from the Rotary Foundation we now have $21,000.00 toward the project.

Our PolioPlus fund raiser is coming up soon.

April 24th is Earth Day and the date of our Bicycle Rally fund raiser.

Nathan Ballentine introduced our speaker today. His name is Darren Morris he is the owner of SORD a security company that has taken him all over the world. Darren has spent 19 years in law enforcement. He is like a big body guard! Guarding folks the likes of Josh Grogan. He has been anything from patrolman to SWAT division commander. Drug raids to felony arrests.

Darren got to train in Brazil where he goes back on occasions. He started his business full time in 2004 the same year he got in to the music business (Keeping Rock Stars Safe). He has been to the pentagon for formal training on National Security, started another business, Columbia Fight House (MMA) and is also an Actor. Very busy fellow.

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Skey Caskey