June 23rd, 2022 Newsletter

“Be brave when you are scared, and humble when you are victorious.” – Unknown

 

“How high you fly is derived from how big you think.” – Robin Sharma – Writer

 

“Just because the past didn’t turn out like you wanted it doesn’t mean your future can’t be better than you imagined.” – Anonymous

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 This Thursday there will be no morning meeting as Lou and Trina are hosting a evening social at their home. Festivities start at 6pm at 1408 Hillcrest, Urbana. It’s a potluck with appetizers, BYOB and lawn chairs. Lou will have the Karaoke equipment set up and ready for anyone and everyone.

Jen announced that her latest film project, Revealer, is streaming on Shudder which is owned by AMC. Currently there is a 7-day free trial period so take a look on their website www.shudder.com. The horror film has received great reviews and it does contain adult language. Another current film on Shudder that the crew worked on is The Stylist. 

CU after Five Rotary Club’s “Brew’s for Books” fundraiser is from 5:00-8:00pm on July 6 at Riggs in Urbana.

Folding and sorting newspapers for the Champaign County Humane Society will take place start at 10am on July 16th at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church 2101 S. Prospect. Bring your saved newspapers to the event or to a Thursday morning meeting to Ed ‘Paper Man’ Perry.

Scott presented Allan Penwell with his 6th Paul Harris award.

 

PROGRAM

This morning was the annual “Pass the Gavel” meeting with our club awards ceremony. Oktay hosted the event by first giving a brief history of the event and giving special mention and thanks to the various members who help with the day-to-day tasks of the club. He presented the following awards:

1. Perfect Attendance: Those with perfect attendance received Rotary hats. 
2. The Alive Alert Awake award was given to Cary Woolard this year.
3. Phyllis Mischo received the club’s Distinguished Service award
4. The Courage Award was given to Paul Conforti.
5. Joe Rank was handed this year’s New Rotarian award. 
6. A special award was given to Andrew Kerins for his continued excellence in providing our weekly club’s newsletter these last ~13 years.
7. Our club’s Rotarian of the year award went to Darrell Hoemann for his service above self again as our president of the club and leading us to receive the Rotary District’s Small Club of the Year Award. 

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	June 30th	July 7th	July 14th	July 21st
Introductions	No morning	Paul Conforti	Diana Dummitt	Ata Durukan
Reflection	meeting.	Robb Patton	Jerry Payonk	Allan Penwell
Greeters	6pm karaoke	Paul Conforti	Diana Dummitt	Ata Durukan
	social at Lou	Ed Perry	Joe Rank	Rod Roberts
Notetaker	Simpson’s House.	Hodson	Conforti	Perry
Decker Weeding			Mary Hodson

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UPCOMING SCHEDULE (with program committee members listed in parentheses)

 

June 30^th – TBD

July 7^th – Club Assembly

July 14^th – Rick Davidson will speak about the new District Foundation and a new Global Grant (Mary)

July 21^st – Kathryn Williams, OLLI Director (Bob)

July 28^th – TBD (Charlie)

August 4^th – Club Assembly

August 11^th – Ryan Ross, Curator of the UIUC Richmond Welcome Gallery, “The U of I in the 1950s – Conservatism, Conformity and the Cold War.” (Joe)

August 18^th – TBD

August 25^th – Gil Holder will speak about the evolution of the universe (Tom)

September 8^th – TBD (Bob)

September 15^th – TBD

September 22^nd – TBD (Charlie)

September 29^th – TBD

October 6^th – TBD

October 13^th – TBD (Joe)

October 20^th – TBD (Mary)