February 23, 2006

UPCOMING PROGRAMS...

STRATFORD: - Meets Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. at Forsyth Country Club
Mar 2: Jo Ellen Carson, Director Rebuilt Leadership Winston-Salem
Mar 9: Rick Rembielak, Head Baseball Coach at WFU, “Diamond Deacons and the 2006 Season”
Mar 16: TBA
Mar 23: Mark Brazil, Director of GGO
Mar 30: Andy Brown, "Salem Business Park"

WINSTON-SALEM ROTARY: - Meets Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m. at the Benton Convention Center
Feb 28: Dr. Robert Schwartz, Department of Pediatrics, WFUBMC, “Obesity in Our Children”
Mar 7: TBA
Mar 14: TBA
Mar 21: TBA
Mar 28: TBA

REYNOLDA: - Meets Fridays at 12:30 p.m. in the Assembly Room of the LJV Coliseum
Feb 24: Dr. Gary Green, President of Forsyth Technical Community College
Mar 3: No Lunch Meeting, Family of Rotary Event in the Evening
Mar 10: TBA
Mar 17: TBA
Mar 24: Dr. Ajay Patel, Dean of the Babcock Graduate School of Management

CLEMMONS: - Meets Wednesdays at 7:00 a.m. at the Village Inn - Clemmons
Mar 1: John Stewarts, “The Saints Among Us”
Mar 8: John Stewart, “The Malcolm McLean Story”
Mar 15: John Stewart, “Rotary Magazine”
Mar 22: Dr. Charles Kimball, “Religion and Its Evil Side”
Mar 29: No Lunch Meeting, 5th Wednesday Social

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

DATES TO REMEMBER:
February 23 – Board Meeting
April 20-23 – District Conference
May 18 – Spring Social in evening at Forsyth Country Club

I’M FLYING AWAY…..I will be on vacation all next week and will be returning on Saturday, March 4, 2006. I’ll see everyone on March 9. Margaret

OUR PARTNER SCHOOL NEEDS OUR HELP……..Next Friday, March 2, 2006 is Read America, Dr. Suess’ Birthday. The school is asking for 2 or 4 of our members to come to the school between the hours of 10:00 and 12:00 and read for 30 minutes to a class. Susan Raymer will be going and she needs help. It will be a very rewarding time. The children love to meet new people. If you can help please call Susan Raymer at 774-8790. LET’S KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK……We are continuing in our quest to become a 100% Paul Harris Club. To date we have 50 new Paul Harris Fellows. President Bobby will be calling the ones of you who have not achieved it yet and asking if you can step up to the plate and get the job done. Please consider saying yes.

THE BEACH IS CALLING……
It’s not too late! District Conference is April 20-23, 2006 at the Myrtle Beach Marriott Resort at Grand Dunes. The deadline for early registration is gone but you can still go. Anyone interested in going needs to let Margaret know.

PROGRAM FEATURES............
February 16 - Dr. Sherry Bridges, Marketing Professor at WFU spoke to us today on “Marketing Then and Now”. Ms. Bridges compared the past to the present. She described the progression like this: Mail: snail mail to Fed X to fax to email to instant messenger to text messaging on our computers and cell phones; Movies: theater to drive-in to movies on television to VHS tapes to cable tv to satellite to DVD to TBO to movies on computers, cell phones and Ipods; Music: hi-fi to LP to stereo to 8 track to cassette to DVD to CD to MP3. We think things are always changing, but things don’t change, we change our way of looking at them. Those who only look to the past or present miss the future. Change is constant and the pace of change is dizzying but marketing is still the same, the product, the price, the place and the promotion. Thank you Ms. Bridges for a very interesting talk.

February 23 – We were presented with another great program today. Parker Lovell of Cash Lovell Stables and Riding Academy was with us today. Ms. Lovell talked about how their 3 generation business got started and evolved from just stables to the riding academy. One of the most interesting parts of the program was when she talked about and described the American Saddlebred horses they have. The history of this horse is very fascinating. The horse was bred for the aristocracy and was a beautiful and graceful horse with a long slender neck, a tall erect head with ears always perked up. The horse prances on all four legs and is the most incredible show horse today. It is a rare breed only making up 3% of the horse population in the world. During the Civil War this beautiful horse rose to the occasion and became a battle horse, then a plow horse after the war to the incredible show horse today. Ms. Lovell talked about the riding academy and its students and how riding and working with horses had helped so many people. They have students as young as 3 and as old as 75. Ms. Lovell showed slides of some of their students. Parker and her husband Cash love what they do and feel truly blessed to be able to do what they enjoy doing. Thank you Ms. Lovell for a wonderful program.

CONGRATULATIONS:

Happy Birthday:
John Bates 3-01
Lee Raymer 3-07
Nick Mitchell 3-09
Tom Moore 3-11
Shari Covitz 3-13
Steve Phelps 3-15
Charlie Chatham 3-16
Rick McBride 3-17
David Blanco 3-23
Rachel Barron 3-26
Amy Egleston 3-26
Bob Harrell 3-26
Doug Dillard 3-28
Kevin Beeson 3-29
Harley Affeldt 3-31
Jimmy Flythe 3-31

MAKEUPS...
Winston-Salem: (2-14) Peggy Low, George Ragland:
Reynolda: (2-17) Roane Cross, Bob Leak, Ed Robbins:
Clemmons: