Rotary Club of Kent meeting minutes
It’s President Randy Next Week
Dr. Randal “Randy” Smith become President Randy when he is worn in next week as President Roger brings a successful Kent Rotary year to a close. Via Zoom, we will watch Randy take office along with his cabinet of fellow officers and club directors. Be on hand via Zoom for the change!
Announcements:
Christmas in July: Todd Kamenash reminded everyone of our big Christmas in July celebration July 25 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. via Zoom. Todd asked Rotarians to fill out the survey (created by Alyssa Mazey).
Ken Wertz Passing: Longtime Rotarian Ken Wertz has died, President Roger announced. Ken is a former president of Rotary and for years headed up Colonial Machine. He and his wife, Nancy, and their son, Eric, have been great travelers since Ken’s retirement. Details regarding arrangements are pending.
Contacting All Rotarians: Program chair Kathy Myers told Rotarians that the club and its officers are trying to contact all club members by telephone, especially those who have not attended our Zoom meetings which have been the way we have held out meetings since the pandemic shut everything down. So, if you see a strange call on your telephone receiver, it may be simply a fellow Rotarians trying to get in touch.
Guests: Kathy Myers said Roger Hoover was scheduled to be her guest.
WKSU-FM’s Amanda Rabinowitz Talks, “Morning Edition.”
Amanda Rabinowitz, the host of WKSU-FM’s “Morning Edition”, told us her popular weekly interviews with Plain Dealer Sports Columnist Terry Pluto is pre-recorded, but that is the only part of her five day a week show that is. She said she goes to Pluto house to interview him and then spends about four hours editing the tape down to the four-minute segment on her show. Sports is not a regular part of the WKSU-FM format, but when the Cavaliers led by LeBron James reached the NBA finals in 2007, area interest was so intense, she said the personnel at WKSU-FM did some brainstorming to come up with a way for the station to connect to the story. The idea of interviewing an expert like Terry Pluto was suggested and she was assigned the job. After a tentative beginning, she and Pluto clicked on radio and kept up the interviews now in their 13th year. Rabinowitz, who grew up in Englewood, New Jersey, but moved with her family to Dover, Ohio when she was 16, said she got into radio at the age of 18 at her local radio station, WJR. She said she enjoyed it so much she would return home weekends from Ohio University to keep doing the Dover radio broadcasts. After her graduation from Ohio U’s Scripps School of Journalism, she worked at WJR in Dover until in 2007 she was hired by WKSU-FM as a reporter. After two years, she succeeded Leonard Will as host of “Morning Edition.” She said her day begins at 2:30 in the morning and she arrives at WKSU-FM at 4 in the morning. She has one hour to prepare for her four-hour stretch that begins at 5 a.m. She inserts local news segments into local segments set aside by the National Public Radio broadcast, which run from 5 until 7 a.m. and then repeat from 7 to 9 a.m. Because she must get up so early in the morning, she said she goes to bed by 6 p.m. Rabinowitz described radio as a more intimate vehicle than television because it is audio only. Sue Hetrick responded for Kent Rotary.
Respectfully submitted:
David Dix
