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Myers’ Musings – August 31, 2021

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This is our last week to order lunch before Tuesday.  If you haven’t signed up for lunch yet, here’s the link.   https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rotary-lunch-8312021-tickets-168644585495 This week we will have Erie Street Kitchen providing a chicken and salad buffet for our club. More details are available on the Eventbrite registration page. Cost is $13 each and orders need to be in no later than 2:00 pm on Monday, August 30th.  Once again, we will provide bottled water.  Thanks Amanda Senn for organizing this lunch (and all our lunches for the summer)!  Rachel Kerns and Chas Madonio offered help and support, but the yeoman’s job was done by Amanda.
 
Last week we had the pleasure of meeting Kent School’s new teachers for the 21-22 school year.  They were all impressive with the amount of work experience they have entering into the year.  Thank you, Tom Larkin, for making the introductions!  Thanks, too, to Anthony Horton for hosting our meeting at Stanton Middle School.  It’s been years since I’ve been in the building and it looks just a good as it did then.  Last week in his 100th anniversary moment, Jim Myers reported that there was a scandal in our club in the 1947-48 school year when member Dr. John Painter charged fellow Kent Rotarian, Superintendent H.P. Smith with having unsanitary conditions in the Kent’s school buildings. Current Kent Superintendent George Joseph need not worry about a similar problem this year.
 
I am on my way to California to work on party prep for my mom’s 90th birthday celebration and family reunion and will not be at the meeting on Tuesday.  President-elect Dave will be running the meeting before flying out later this week to join the fun.
 
Dave will have shirt samples and a sign-up sheet at the meeting.  As I mentioned last Tuesday, the polo shirts for both men and women are sized as expected.  The men’s t-shirts are also sized as expected.  The ladies’ t-shirts were very snug.  Our vendor got samples of two more shirts for me to check out.  While they also have a slim cut, I liked one better than the others.  It is very soft, has a more comfortable neckline and is a cotton/polyester blend (which, hopefully will keep shrinkage down). We will order those.  Ladies, if you’re in doubt of your size, either order up, or order a men’s/unisex shirt.
 
Our Tuesday program will be Kent’s new Fire Chief and one of our newest Rotarians, Bill Myers.  I know it will be a great program.
 
Program Chair, Asad Khan, has a great lineup of programs for September.  His theme will be Women in Leadership.  It’s the perfect time to invite guests and potential club members to join us.
 
Let’s Serve to Change Lives!
 
With gratitude,
Kathy
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Rotareminder for August 24, 2021
President Kathy called the meeting to order in the Auditoria of Stanton Middle School where we convened to avoid interrupting preparations for the “Trash and Treasure” rummage sale at the Methodist Church.
 
With no piano available and David Dix assigned the Rotareminder, President Kathy dispensed with the club singing a patriotic song and a Rotary songbook song and led us in the Pledge of Allegiance.  Paul Organ offered the invocation.  President Kathy reminded us that Bill Myers, the new Kent Fire Chief and a new member of our club, will be our speaker next Tuesday when we are back at the Methodist Church.
 
Visiting Rotarians:  There were no visiting Rotarians.
 
GuestsGeorge Joseph introduced as his guest Michele Kisthardt of Hudson Integrated Marketing whom he said is succeeding Mary Beth Harper as Communications Director for the Kent Schools, Mary Beth having retired.   Mallory Carter, the daughter of Matt Carter, the granddaughter of David Hansford, and great granddaughter of Bruce Hansford was introduced.
 
Announcements:
 
Next Rotary Happy Hour:   scheduled for September 22nd at the River Merchant.
 
Rotary Shirts: President Kathy announced Rotary t-shits and polo shirts were available to inspect on a table near where Matt Carter took our luncheon money and Bruce Hansford recorded our attendance.  Prices, she said, will be listed next week.
 
Food DriveTodd Kamenash reminded us that Wednesday, August 25th from 1 to 4 there was a food drop-off site on Hilltop Drive in front of Cartwright Hall.
 
100th Anniversary, Rotary Moment:  Jim Myers talked about Kent Rotary in 1947.  See his remarks. 
 
Program:  Introduction of new teachers in the Kent Schools.
 
Assistant Superintendent of Kent City Schools Tom Larkin introduced 14 new teachers who are joining the faculty and staff.  They are Sadie Anderson Ela (Bachelor of Science at Ohio University) at Stanton Middle School; Katy Bissell (Master’s Degree from City College of New York) at Longcoy Elementary School; Erin Bugarcic (MLIS/Med Kent State University) in Library Media for Davey and Walls Elementary Schools; Michelle Dile (Bachelor of Science at the University of Akron), Wall Elementary School, Grade 4; Emma Hanby (Master’s of Education at Kent State University), Walls Elementary School, Grade 4; Kimberly Kimble (Bachelor of Science University of Akron), Stanton Middle School, Intervention Specialist; Shelley Loofboro, (Bachelor of Science, Kent State University), Davey Elementary School, Grade 4; Beth Mast (Bachelor of Science, Bowling Green University), Roosevelt  High School, Mathematics; Beth Nahra (Master’s of Education from Grand Canyon University), Roosevelt High School, Career Technical Clinical/Allied Health Care;  Ellen Penglase (Master’s Degree from California State University), Intervention Specialist, Stanton Middle School; Kaitlyn Schwab, (Bachelor of Science, Kent State University), Davey Elementary School, Kindergarten; Jennifer Silman, (Bachelor of Science, Kent State University), Davey Elementary School, Grade 3; Carrie Sullivan (Bachelor of Science, University of Akron), Holden Elementary School, Intervention Specialist; Elizabeth Weckerly, Bachelor of Science, Kent State University), Roosevelt High School, Intervention Specialist; Coreena Wise (Bachelor of Science, Bowling Green University), Intervention Specialist, 50 percent of the time.  Responding was Will Underwood, retired from Kent State University Publishing, who has become a school bus driver for the Kent City Schools. 
 
New Turf Surface:  Following the introduction of teachers, George Joseph made himself available to give walking tours of the new surface that replaces grass at the Roosevelt High School stadium.  The deep green of the field has end zones that are Roosevelt Red with one saying “Rough Riders” and the other “Roosevelt”.
 
Respectfully submitted:   Dave Dix
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Kent Rotary History Moments for August 24, 2021
Dr. Howard P. ( horsepower) Smith was name to head the Kent Rotary Club during the expanded economy and rapidly growing community for the year 1947-48. Dr. Smith served as Superintendent of the Kent Public Schools. The H.P. or horsepower as he was affectionately known then, would today probably stand for Hewlett Packard. He reactivated the Rotareminder, weekly newsletter, and even edited it himself.
 
Programs  were of varied interest and kept Rotarians alert, especially when Jack Lyon of Ravenna, herpetologist, brought his snakes to a luncheon meeting.  Waldo Semon an Akron Chemist, credited with helping to invent Synthetic Rubber during the war years, spoke on a new subject “Chemurgy and What It Can Do For The Farmer.” Waldo later became a member of this club. Another club member, Dr. Charles C. Voorhis, a surgeon, gave a very graphic program on “War Surgery” in the South Pacific.

Dr. John Painter, Rotarian Past President and Kent school physician tangled with Rotary President H. P. Smith superintendent of Kent schools when the doctor charged that the schools had unsanitary conditions. After a flurry of charges and denials made public, a truce occurred.

Kent Rotarians opened a room for deaf students at KSU which local children could be referred to without tuition. Member Todd Fenn chaired a committee to work on plans for a new Kent State University Stadium.

At the time our club had 87 members.

History Moments.  

Jim Myers
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