March 8, 2007

UPCOMING PROGRAMS...
STRATFORD: - Meets Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. at Forsyth Country Club
Mar. 15: County Commissioner Ted Kaplan
Mar. 22: Dr. Al Stubbs of the NC Sports Medicine Institure and son of our own Allston Stubbs
Mar. 29: Dr. Vaughn McCall, “What exactly does Scientoloty say about Psychiatry and Psychology?”
Arp. 5: NO MEETING! HAPPY EASTER!!
Apr. 12: TBA
Apr. 19: John Maucheri, Chancellor and Director and Gerald Freedman, Dean of Drama and Director and cast members of “West Side Story” being performed at the NCSA in May, 2007

WINSTON-SALEM ROTARY: - Meets Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m. at the Benton Convention Center
Mar. 13: Carol Strohecker, Director of the Center for Design Innovation, UNC. Meeting will be held at the Old Salem Visitors Center
Mar. 20: Jim Woodcock, Carolina Financial Group and Keith Hobgood, Lead Illustrator for Out of Out Minds Animation Studios
Mar. 27: Dr. Gerald Freedman, Dean of Drama, NCSA

REYNOLDA: - Meets Fridays at 12:30 p.m. in the Assembly Room of the LJV Coliseum
Mar. 9: Gerald Freeman, Dean of the School of Drama at NCSA and the Director of West Side Story
Mar. 16: Nancy Dunn and William Turner, “N.C. Interstate History”
Mar. 23: TBA
Mar. 30: Salinda Dailey, Director of the NC Birding Trail
Apr. 6: The GSE Team from Scotland. This meeting wil be held in the Home & Garden Building
Apr. 13: Spirit, the Salem Academy Choral Ensemble

CLEMMONS: - Meets Wednesdays at 7:00 a.m. at the Village Inn - Clemmons
Mar. 14: Colonel Jack Waters, Salvation Army
Mar. 21: James Bryant, Pediatric ER
Mar. 28: Claudia Bottoms, “Winston-Salem Monthly Magazine”
Apr. 4: Bill McCain, Director Youth Services, HAWS, “Gang Prevention through Youth Invo;vement”
Apr. 11: Tina Stearns, Comm. Liason, “Hospice and Palliative Care Center”

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

THERE WILL BE NO BOARD MEETING THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2007!! IT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULES FOR NEXT WEEK MARCH 22, 2007.

Please remember John Surratt. John had a knee replacement and is doing great. He will have the other knee replaced soon

It was good to see Earline King and Robert Harper back with us today. They both have been out with illness for a while

DATES TO REMEMBER:
March 22, 2007 – Board Meeting at 11:45
April 13-15, 2007 – District Conference at the Homestead in Virginia

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
Dave Blance 3-23
Rachel Barron 3-26
Amy Egleston 3-26
Bob Harrel 3-26
Doug Dillard 3-28
Harrley Affeldt 3-31
Jimmy Flythe 3-31

PROGRAM FEATURES............
Talk about programs! If you haven’t been to a meeting lately or left early, you have missed some great programs.

February 22 Sandra Adams, Headmaster, Summit School talked to us about “Challenges in
Education”. She said the greatest challenge in education today is “Who is going to teach our children tomorrow?” Children today are choosing their futures based on money. Which jobs pay the most.. A teacher’s salary is definitely not a lure. More teachers are retiring than are coming into the field

March 1 – Lenna Hobson, RagApple Lassie Vineyards owner fascinated us with her talk about the wine industry. Lenna and her husband farm 500 acres in Booneville. The farm has passed through 3 generations. Lenna and her husband decided with the decline in farming and the loss of tobacco, they would look for another way to keep the land equitable. In the spring of 2000 the first vines were put in the ground and by September 2002 they had 30 acres of grapes. They have 10 varities of grapes. They have a lady winemaker with 30 years of experience. It cost approximately $1,500 per acre to maintain. There are now 16 wineries in the Yadkin Valley.

March 8 – We had another fascinating speaker today. Walter Turner, Historian, N.C. Transportation Museum talked to us today about the history of our interstates. It was quite interesting to see how it all began and the engineering feats it took.