About Beata Gynnerstedt: Beata joins us from Sweden. The Georgia Rotary Student Program was established to promote world peace by offering international students scholarships to study for one year at Georgia colleges and universities. Beata enjoys the outdoors, including competing in equestrian activities (outdoor riding, dressage, and show jumping), snowboarding, and skiing. Consistent with her love of nature and her desire to contribute to a better world, Beata is interested in working in the field of environmental science. About Derek Norberg: Derek is the Director of the Golden Isles Leadership Foundation, a Georgia non-profit doing business as The First Tee of the Golden Isles. A graduate of Flagler College with a degree in Sport Management, Derek has progressed within The First Tee Network holding positions with multiple First Tee organizations over the past five years. In 2010, Derek joined (then called) The First Tee of St. Johns County as a volunteer, coaching golf and life skills to local youth before being named Director of Programming in 2011 for The First Tee of Greater Charleston. During his 4 years in Charleston, Derek and his team built a foundation for programming expanding the organizations reach to over 30,000 youth in 2014. Familiar with The First Tee model Derek accepted a new challenge this past March; continue the Boards vision of bringing a chapter of The First Tee to the Golden Isles.

Volume 68 – Number 9 September 15, 2015

September 22: John Dancer, Salvation Army September 29: John McKenzie, Davis Love Foundation October 6: Arnie Sidman, Author, From Race to Renewal

Beata Gynnerstedt Georgia Rotary Student Program (GRSP)

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Derek Norberg The First Tee of the Golden Isles

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Susan Shipman Raising Bees 101

9/22 Tom Sayer & Lee Scheinman

9/15 John Rose & Paul Sanders III

9/29 Gary Schwartz & Denny Silva 9/22 Paul Sanders, Jr., & Tom Sayer

Last Program: September 1, 2015 September 1 , 2015

When asked why she raises honeybees, Susan Shipman’s answer was simple. “ I was a biology major,”

she said matter-of-factly. That makes perfect sense because Susan knows a lot about bees. A beekeeper

for five years and currently with five healthy hives to her credit, Susan’s colonies produce 60-80 pounds of

honey each year. That’s a lot of honey! What does one do with 300-400 pounds of honey? Susan gives

hers to friends and family and probably anyone who would ask for some. Susan is in it more for the joy of

raising bees than for the end product. But tasty it is. We all got to sample some during her presentation.

Susan brought several colonies with her so we were able to see a working bee hive up close and

personal. Of the almost 400 species of bees in the world, honeybees are the only specie that produces the

sweet nectar known as honey. Susan’s bees came from Italy. She says that Italian bees are the best

because of their generous production of honey that is especially sweet and flavorful. In fact, honeybees

were not indigenous to North America, but were brought here during colonial times.

Susan talked about the complex structure of the beehive and the hierarchy of the bee population.

Of course, the Queen is the top bee, followed by worker bees (all female) and then drones (all male)

who mate with the Queen and then die from starvation when they are kicked out of the hive.

”Sorry, guys,” Susan joked. The Queen only eats royal jelly which is the finest nectar produced in the hive.

A Queen can live for two years or more. Worker bees for only 4-6 weeks.

Nurse bees (the youngest worker bees) take care of the nursery, which is

constantly producing new bees for the hive.

Susan buys her bees in 2-pound quantities which amounts to

approximately 10,000 bees. Bee populations and their ability to pollinate

crops have been threatened in the last decade due to harmful pesticides

used in agriculture. All fruits, vegetables, and nut crops require bee

pollination. Bee pollination is so threatened in China that it is

actually being done by human hands. “Thankfully they have the

manpower to do it,” commented Susan

Thank you, Susan Shipman, for your most interesting presentation.

9/10 Jody Haley 9/13 Chuck Cansler 9/13 Drew Holland 9/14 Tom Parker 9/14 Robbie Strange 9/17 Donna Davis 9/18 Virginia Ellis

Charles Lewis $39

Find the blue CART Buckets sitting on your table. All donations go to Alzheimer’s Research. Our first 1

st Tuesday of the year at Nazarro was a huge success. Thank you Lisa Martin for hosting.

A membership application has been received from James Sexton, sponsored by Jim Bruce. James is a Financial Advisor with Edward Jones and lives here on St Simons with his wife Mary Catherine. James was born in Ottumwa, Iowa and attended Oklahoma State University. Please introduce yourself to James and welcome him to our Rotary.

Members Attending – 78 / Total Guests: 86

Visiting Rotarians – 1 Duane Harris, Brunswick Rotary

Guests – 6

Brion Trainor (Beverly Trainor); Randy Wester (Mary Beth Wester); Vicki Skywork (Sharon McClellan); Whitey Hunt (Jim Foster); Liz Booth (Eric

Andreae); Kathleen Turner (Te Turner)

Speaker – 1 Susan Shipman

COINS FOR ALZHEIMER¹S RESEARCH TRUST - GO TEAM DISTRICT 6920! The need for Alzheimer¹s research dollars has never been greater. The Alzheimer¹s tsunami is here and Rotary is in the fight! A few years back I had the honor and privilege of meeting a remarkable man ­ Coach Frank Broyles. Many of you may know Coach Broyles as a great football player - a star quarterback at Georgia Tech, the 1944 Southeast Conference Player of the year; or as a great Coach and Athletic Director at the University of Arkansas. I met Coach Broyles and know him as a great husband and care partner to his wife Barbara who died from Alzheimer¹s disease. Coach Broyles said that he approached Alzheimer¹s disease much like he would an opponent on the field ­ with a solid game plan and a dedicated team. We as Rotarians in District 6920 can learn from Coach Broyles. Through the CART fund we can tackle this devastating and formidable opponent - Alzheimer¹s. We are all players on the CART team and we can win this fight! Let¹s commit to taking District 6920 to the end zone. Let¹s score this year with record contributions to CART. We cannot continue to allow Alzheimer¹s to win ­ its winning takes our loved ones, our friends, our resources. Let¹s all get in the game and not stand on the sidelines. All we need to do is drop those dollars in those blue buckets. Simple, yet profound!

Yours in Rotary Service, Kathy Tuckey – 6920 CART Chair Beverly Trainor & Susan Shipman