Selinsgrove Area Rotary Club
Rotary Serving Humanity
Vol. 89, No. 40 President – Mary Peterhaensel Editor – Dottie Anderson
Next Meeting: May 18, 2017 – Marv Rudnitsky is the host for this Young Generations program featuring Clubs (and District’s) Four Way Speech Contest winner Hannah Domaracki and Amelia Will, our outbound Exchange Student. Mike Flock is the greeter. SVCC, 11:45 a.m.
May 11, 2017: Twenty-six Rotarians and guests were present as Dave Lawer introduced the SACF/Rotary Club Scholarship Recipients for 2017. Dottie Anderson shared some of the history of the scholarship program which is first discussed by the Club in 1979 and implemented with a $500 one year scholarship in the 1980’s. Since 1993 when the Club started the Selinsgrove Area Youth Foundation with an initial $10,000, the Scholarship program has grown into 4 $1000 per year in college scholarships for three four year students and one two year Vo Tech student. The current Scholarship Committee for the SACommunityF, is Chaired by Dave Lawer and incudes Phil Winer and Rotarians Pat Pinkowski and Carol Handlan. Selected from among the 30+ applicants the four selected for 2017 are: Leonard Times (Vo Tech, attending Penn College as a Welding and Fabrication major; he came to Selinsgrove from Arizona and has an internship in New Mexico this summer before starting his post high school program, he is captain of the soccer team); Lauren Rowe (will attend Juniata College as a pre-me or pre-vet student, she has been active in Art, music and forensics and will be participating in the National Forensics tournament in Kentucky); Page Hepner (plans to attend Wilkes as a 5 year pharmacy major, plays soccer, is president of the honor society, has completed a semester of college credits at Bloomsburg); and Keyana Zellers (first in her family to attend college, she will go to Susquehanna or Juniata, majoring in Biology and History, an active member of the key club, girl scouts, Tolerance Troupe, and member of the Grease cast). Carol Handlan, at Dave’s request, shared a bit about helping current Selinsgrove students locate all means of funding for college.
Announcements: Mallet Madness is rapidly approaching – May 19-20 – please continue to recruit teams and players, as well as sign up to volunteer for set up, referee, etc. Continue to recruit teams and non-profits to participate – we have 33 teams on a goal of 45.*Host families are being sought for our inbound exchange student from South Korea. Speak with Marv Rudnitsky about this possibility.**July 25 will be our Gazebo Hotdog Night this summer.***Mary and Hal are participating in the District Conference.
Sergeant at arms: Marv Rudnitsky collected happy fines as follows: himself (scholarship winners); Pat Pinkowski (ditto, Grease performance, Mother’s Day); Dave Lawer (ditto, Pat and Carol’s work on committee); Carol Handlan (students, John and Melissa for work on MM, NY and NJ quick trip and small world story); Bill Clark (oldest grandson graduating from college, scholarship recipients); Art Bowen (students, granddaughter at lacrosse, daughter’s move, golf game); Tom Gates (oldest grandson’s at Penn State); Cheryl Stumpf (Big Sur family trip and marathon); John Stokinger (scholarship recipients and slap an idiot day); Konrad Kempfe (students); Melissa Laniewski (students, leaving early); Ken Miller (ditto and example set, new church building); Charlie McCuen (students, SID – see you afterward); John Reed (ditto, grandchild’s grad from Bloom, Ruth Roush concert); Mary Peterhaensel (students, conference with Amelia); and Earl Ferster (students and +15).
Future Programs
May 25 – The Great Egg Crate, Art Bowen presenting. Tom Gates is the greeter. SVCC, 11:45 a.m.
June 1 – Eunice Troxell from the Selinsgrove Senior Center will be the speaker, Earl Ferster is the host. Wes Knapp is the greeter. SVCC, 11:45 a.m. A Board Meeting precedes this meeting.
June 8 – TBA, Brian Neitz is the host. Dave Lawer is the greeter. SVCC, 11:45 a.m.
June 15 – Host John Fischer has arranged for Jane Taylor to speak about and share photos of her recent trip to Vietnam. SVCC, 11:45 a.m.
Birthdays: June 24 – Pat Pinkowski.
Quotation: “There are, of course, in any community, a thousand and one ways to make oneself useful.” Eleanor Roosevelt in You Learn by Living