Selinsgrove Area Rotary Club
Be a Gift to the World
Vol. 88, No. 17 President – Mike Piecuch Guest Editor – John Stokinger
Next Meeting: November 5, 2015 – 11:45 a.m., SVCC. Annual Meeting, Election of 201 6-17 Officers and Directors; Susannah Faulk will be our speaker. This meeting will be preceded by a Board of Directors Meeting at 11 a.m.
Oct. 29, 2015: 19 Rotarians and 1 guest were present to hear Fanny Mayeur, our Rotary exchange student, speak to the club. Her host “mom”, Brittany Bunting-Specht, accompanied her. Fanny is from Belgium and she gave us a geography lesson about her home. It is small, only 11,787 square miles. There are separate regional areas, similar to our countries or states. Belgium has 11,203,992 people. Brussels is the capital, which is a major city for Europe, with NATO and other international entities headquartered there. The country has 3 primary languages spoken, Flemish to the North, French to the South and German to the East. Some more unusual facts…178 breweries create 800 different beers; 440,924,560 pounds of chocolate are produced in Belgium each year. Fanny left her mom, dad, and 13 year old sister at home (and 4 cats). She hasn’t decided what she’ll study in college. This year will help her make that decision. She was on Selinsgrove High School’s fall tennis team. She hopes to play basketball this winter and lacrosse in the spring. She’s been to New York City once and will be going back in November.
Announcements: Donna S told us that the Croquet committee met and set sponsorship levels, discussed a possible event name, “Community Croquet Challenge” and set the next group of tasks. Mark your calendars for May 20 and 21, 2016. Dave L reminded members that he needs volunteers to help set the flags for Veterans’ Day. Meet at Rotary Field next Thurs aat 1:w30. President Michael reported that there’ll be a Board meeting next Thursday at 11 AM. He also asked for a volunteer to organize our Salvation Army bell ringing for Late Shoppers’ Night on Dec. 1st.
Sergeant at arms: Marv Rudnitsky collected “happy fines” as follows: Marv – speaker & guest and MD game; Melissa – Hallowine event; Pat P – thank you Art for helping with BBall net; Donna S – Croquet Committee, Joh F – MD game, Mike F – Outer Banks, Art – guests and maple tree, Mary P – late and missing, Joyce j- speaker, guest & apple juice, Konrad – speaker, Dave L – Fanny’s “sponsors” & field hockey team, Michael P – field hockey, guests, coalition for kids, Brittany (“mom” – Fanny and pending Penn State game.
Future Programs:
Nov. 12 – Liz Fulcher from Aromatic Wisdom Institute, Melissa Laniewski is the host, John Reed is the greeter, SVCC, 11:45 p.m.
Nov. 19 – TBA, David Lawer is the host, Jared Roush is the greeter, SVCC, 11:45 p.m.
Birthdays: Nov. 6 – Donna Schuck; 15 – Art Bowen.
Quotation: “Believe in yourself and all that you asre. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” Christian d’Larson