Hi Rotarians and Friends!
We are having lunch at this week’s meeting! The wonderful Methodist Women who have been preparing and serving our lunches will be back in action this week. Thanks to the over 40 people who said they would be there in person and buying lunch!
Only one more week until we return to Pierson Hall on February 15th! It was delayed a week due to the new technology we need to have in place and tested before the move. We have worked with the church to ensure that we have the technology needed to continue to have hybrid meetings AND the nicer atmosphere and better acoustics of Pierson Hall. Please join in person to celebrate this homecoming! Lunch will be served and we need to have at least 40 people buying lunch. Thanks for being there if you can. If you cannot, the virtual option remains open.
Our Kent Rotary Auction will be held Friday, May 6th at the American Legion Hall. Please start thinking about what you plan to donate and how you can help. After two pandemic and auction-free years, we need to refill the Kent Rotary Foundation coffers. Those monies support our club as well as providing funds for many local needs. The auction committee will meet in Pierson Hall after the February 15th meeting.
Our program last Tuesday by member Brian Bachtel was great! Jim Myers was watching online and sent the following comments:
I tried my best to get in on the conversation and question and answer. But was unable to because of too many local participants. But what I had to offer was that it was interesting that Anthony Horton the principal of Stanton Middle School was making a "Student of the Month" presentation today because it was Bob Stanton, Superintendent of Kent schools and Bob Wilson, superintendent of Cuyahoga Falls schools who were the driving force behind the six district compact that created these opportunities for the area’s students. At the time I served on the Kent school board and the state had mandated that each school district had to provide vocational programs for its students. Stanton and Wilson, and the various school districts who joined, were able to put forward a program previously unseen in the state of Ohio. As a result it was both critiqued and criticized but here we are today with a proven winner of a program.
And by the way Brian 70 years ago, when I was in school, we didn’t know what “vocational” meant. It was called “shop”!
Thanks, Jim! He’s still educating us on Rotary and Kent history.
I will be visiting my mom this week and President-Elect Dave will be running the meeting. See you on the 15th!
Let’s Serve to Change Lives!
With gratitude,
Kathy