December 16, 2004

UPCOMING PROGRAMS...<
STRATFORD: - Meets Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. at Forsyth Country Club
Dec.23: NO MEETING! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
Dec.30: NO MEETING! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Jan. 6: Jennifer Coulumbe, Assistant Director for the YMCA, "Rev-ing up your New Year's Workout"
Jan.13: Dixie Yow, Forsyth Medical Center Diet Myths
Jan.20: David Meyer
Jan.25: Legg Mason Economic speaker

WINSTON-SALEM ROTARY: - Meets Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m. at the Benton Convention Center
Dec.21: George Little and Lee Martin, "Growing Grapes and Making Wine in North Carolina"
Dec.28: NO MEETING!!
Jan. 4: Milton Rhodes, President and CEO, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Arts Council
Jan.11: OLD SALEM VISITORS CENTER, Tannenberg Organ Recital by Scott Carpenter, Organist at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church
Jan.18: Tom Denenberg, Betsy Main Babcock Curator of Art at Reynolda House , Museum of American Art
Jan.25: James Brinkley, Chairman, Legg Mason Wood Walker, Inc., An Investor's Life Guide

REYNOLDA: - Meets Fridays at 12:30 p.m. in the Assembly Room of the LJV Coliseum
Dec.24: NO MEETING!! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
Dec.31: NO MEETING! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Jan. 7: Mrs. Glenn Dobbs, "Studies in American History: Thomas Edison - A Brief Biography."
Jan 14: Operation Smile and the Rotary Foundation by Carl Treleaven of the Cresent Club
Jan 21: Professor David Lubin of the Art Department of WFU
Jan.28: Rodney Stilwell of the Forsyth Jail & Prison Ministries

CLEMMONS:- Meets Wednesdays at 7:00 a.m. at the Village Inn - Clemmons
Dec.22: Chef Don McMillan from Simple Elegance, will talk about ideas for a great Super Bowl Party
Dec.29: TBA
Jan. 5: Richard Childress. Childress Racing
Jan.12: Valerie Kiser, Sunrise Yoga, Relaxing in the office
Jan.19: Tom Jenkins, Club Website
Jan.26: Gail Anderson, Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce

ANNOUNCEMENTS, NEWS & INFORMATION................

DATES TO REMEMBER:
January 13 - Board Meeting 11:45

UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS:

Celebrating 100 years of Rotary Together - February 23, 2005. You are invited to a special birthday party. The birthday party will be at the Koury Convention Center at Four Seasons, in Greensboro. We will be talking about this more in the future.

PROGRAM FEATURES............

December 9 - OUR HOLIDAY SOCIAL WAS A TREMENDOUS SUCCESS!
We made over $10,400 on the auction! The mink coat was found!!!

Thanks to everybody who made our Holiday Social a success.

Special Thanks to Loy McGill who spent many hours of work on the auction. Others who helped set up the auction included Mary McCandless, Ellen Stockton, Trisha Chatham, Margaret Warren, and Mike Dixon and his committee. We sincerely appreciate the work that Kathy Acton did in getting the social and auction under way.

Thanks to the major contributors including: Earline King, Carl Deaton, Ed Robbins, Loy McGill, Trisha Chatham, and Ellen Stockton. Most of our members worked so hard and contributed so much to make this event a success.

Where will the funds raised at the Holiday Auction go?
Fund raised from the auction will primarily be used to cover the cost of our Centennial Project which is a play ground for children in Winston-Salem. The city of Winston-Salem will provide the land for this project and Stratford Rotary will have a play ground built on the property. The cost of this project is estimated to be over $16,000. Half of this money will be from funds raised in 2003 and 2004. We raised enough money to complete this project at the 2004 Holiday Auction.

Vernon Ferrell, III who has had a great deal of experience in planning play grounds for different projects is Chairman of the Rotary Centennial Project.

Thanks for the toys and books you brought. Where did the books and toys go?
The toys and books that you brought to the Holiday were donated to several agencies in Winston-Salem for needy and deserving children. The toys were distributed by SCAN for disadvantaged children in our community who are victims of child abuse or are at risk. Some of the toys were donated to Amos Cottage for use with their children. Books were added to the library at our partner school, Kimberly Park Elementary.

Thanks, Charlie Chatham

Rotarian of the Year
Ellen Stockton received the Rotarian of the Year Award for her outstanding service as Program Chairman. Under Ellen’s leadership, the Program Committee has brought outstanding speakers to Stratford Rotary during 2004. The Mental Health Association said that the Kathy Cronkite program was the most successful and best attended program they have had. Loy McGill planted the seed to start the Cronkite program and Ellen made it happen for Stratford Rotary. Ellen generously contributed both time and wonderful auction items to the Holiday Auction. Congratulations to Ellen Stockton who was named our most recent Paul Harris Fellow.

THANK YOU NOTE FROM AMOS COTTAGE

Dear Participating Rotary Members.
I would like to take this opportunity to formally thank each of you for your holiday donation to the special children at the Amos Cottage Therapeutic Day Program. We plan to use the donated toys to replenish our Behavior Toy Store. On Tuesdays, if the child has displayed "positive behavior" he earns a visit to the "Store". I have to admit, many of our children have been extra god during the month of December in anticipation of Santa's arrival so our shelves have looked a little vacant. The timing of your donation was perfect! Thank you for putting a smile on the face of a child who is experiencing a little difficulty in their present live. On behalf of the children at the Amos Cottage Therapeutic Day Program, I would like to extend to each of you a warm seasons greetings and a very blessed and healthy New Year.

Sincerely,

Mary R. Dame
Program Director


December 16 - Today's speaker was Doug Bassett, Vice President of Sales at Vaughn-Bassett Furniture Co. He is also the spokesman for the Committee For Legal Trade that filed an anti-dumping petition with the U.S. Government alleging that China was illegally dumping bedroom furniture into the U.S. Market. This year long investigation ended last week! Doug reported that the outcome of this investigation was in favor of the U.S. Government. Fines were levied on China. Thank you Doug for a very interesting look into the furniture industry and congratulations on the success of your investigation.

CONGRATULATIONS:
Happy Birthday:
Jim Haley 12-01
Alan Cox 12-03
Jim Bunn 12-09
Frank Murphy 12-09
Robert Pulliam 12-12
Kathie Cooper 12-18
Everette Murphrey 12-18
Mary McCandless 12-22
Tom Ogburn 12-25
Jim Whitney 12-26
Jeff Clark 12-27
Arthur Affleck 12-30
Peggy Low 12-31

Makeups...

Winston-Salem: (11-30) Jimmy Flythe: (12-7) Gary Fleming, Jim Lambie, Doug Leckie, Sandra Mitchell: (12-16) John Garrou:

Reynolda: (12-03) Roane Cross, Gordon Spaugh:

Clemmons: