November 3, 2005

UPCOMING PROGRAMS...

STRATFORD: - Meets Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. at Forsyth Country Club        
Nov. 10: Ryan Mihalko, Athletic Director Summit School, “From New England to Notre Dame to Summit School”
Nov. 17: Paul Briggs, Director, WFU Babcock School Demon Incubator 
Nov.24:  NO MEETING, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
Dec. 1:  Don Moore, Prodigals Community
Dec. 8:  NO LUNCH MEETING! CHRISTMAS SOCIAL AT 6:30 P.M. AT FORSYTH COUNTRY CLUB

WINSTON-SALEM ROTARY:- Meets Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m. at the Benton Convention Center 
Nov. 8:  Pat Taylor and Jo Ellen Carson, “Re-engineering Leadership Winston-Salem”
Nov.15:  Bob Forney, National President 2nd Harvest Foodbank and Nan Griswold, Director, Northwest 2nd Harvest Foodbank, “Award Recognition/Feeding the Hungry in Time of Disaster”
Nov.22:  Tom Ross, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, “Strategic Focus for the 21st Century”
Nov.29:  Denise Franklin, 88.50 WFDD in the Digital Age  

REYNOLDA:- Meets Fridays at 12:30 p.m. in the Assembly Room of the LJV Coliseum
Nov 11:  “Service Above Self: Cook School and Beyond”
Nov 18:  TBA
Nov 25:  NO MEETING, HAPPY THANKSGIVING! 
Dec. 2:  Jim Robinson, Executive Director of the Community Care Center

CLEMMONS:- Meets Wednesdays at 7:00 a.m. at the Village Inn - Clemmons
Nov. 9:  NO MEETING, SITE VISIT LA REYNOLDS
Nov.16:  Ashley Titus, President Yadkinville Rotary Club
Nov.23:  NO MEETING, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Nov.30:  No morning meeting, 5th Wednesday 6:00 p.m. social
ANNOUNCEMENTS, NEWS & INFORMATION................

DATES TO REMEMBER:

December 8 – Holiday Social
January 26 – Board Meeting

A TIME FOR THANKS AND GIVING………
We will be collecting food again this year for the Second Harvest Food Bank. The Second Harvest Food Bank provides food to people in need through emergency food pantries, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, rescue missions, battered women’s shelters, etc., and also to feeding programs such as Meals on Wheels.

Most needed items: high protein foods such as tuna, canned meats, peanut butter, dried/canned beans. Vegetables including canned vegetables, soups, tomato sauce and paste, spaghetti sauce, tomato juice. Fruits such as canned sliced fruit, fruit cups, fruit juices, dried fruits. Pasta and grains including macaroni and cheese, boxed pastas and rice, cereal and cereal bars, pancake and biscuit mix. Please bring your donations to our November 17 meeting.

WHY YOUR BENEVOLENCE GIVING IS SO IMPORTANT………
Everyone will be receiving a personalized letter soon from President Bobby Sprinkle and Ed Robbins, Chairman of our Rotary Foundation Committee, giving everyone an update on where they stand with the Foundation regarding their contributions. The letter will also explain why giving to our local benevolence and the Foundation is so important. You will be given opportunities and choices as to how you would like to give. The goal for our Club this year is 100% participation in our giving.  

ABOUT OUR MEMBERS…….
Sad to say, the following members have resigned in the past several months for various reasons such as traveling, job change, and moving: Arthur Affleck, Audrey Bailey, Vernon Ferrell, Lyons Gray, Chris Patti, Philip Reed, Gary Rhea, Williams Semans, and Jim Whitney. We will miss them all.
 
THE CHRISTMAS SEASON IS COMING…….
As is our tradition, Stratford Rotary is signed up to ring the bells for Salvation Army on Saturday, December 17, 2005 in front of Harris Teeter at Thruway from 10:00-4:00. If you would like to help call Margaret or see her at the meeting this week.
You will be receiving you invitation to our annual Christmas social very soon. It will be held at Forsyth on Thursday evening, December 8, 2005 starting with cocktails at 6:30 and dinner at 7:30. Please bring wrapped toys with age and gender identification. These toys will be sent to children in Mississippi.

YOUR BOARD APPROVED TWO NEW MEMBERS. Please check your emailed newsletter for details.

PROGRAM FEATURES

October 27– Our speaker today was Sean Kennedy, College Counselor, Forsyth Country Day School. Sean talked about the higher expectations of our high school students today. There are more admissible students than ever before. This is good and bad. There is more importance put on curriculum, SAT scores and grades. The universities are harder to get into today. It doesn’t matter that parents or grandparents attended there, the university goes for the best students. The higher admission standards should be a source of pride and motivation. Unfortunately, students must work harder, carry heavier curriculums as well as participate in extracurricular and by the time they get to college they are burned out. Mr. Kennedy advised parents to read College articles and Books to help their children pick the right university for them

November 3– Ellen Kutcher, Director Historic Bethabara spoke to us today. She led us on a nineteen year journey of the founding of Bethabara. She gave the history of the forefathers and how they arrived where they did. The historic park opened to the public in 1970. Everyone should take a stroll through the simple splendor of Old Bethabara.  

CONGRATULATIONS:

Happy Birthday:                        
Hayden Kepley         11-08
Bill Baldridge           11-12
Allston Stubbs          11-15
Jane Potter              11-16
Chris Douglas           11-19
Bob Beach              11-25
Fletcher Wilson        11-27
Rick Amme             11-29
 
MAKEUPS...                                     
Winston-Salem:  (10-25) Jennifer Foster:  (11-01) Doug Leckie:   
Reynolda:  (10-28) Bob Coil, Gerry Malmo:  (11-04) Roane Cross, George Fleetwood, Tom Gatewood, Gerry Malmo,
Robert Pulliam:
Clemmons: None