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MEETER / GREETER Gene Fethke INVOCATION Jane Clingman-Scott THIS WEEK’S MENU Meatloaf with mashed potatoes and gravy, Chef’s choice hot veggie, salad bar and dessert STUDENT GUESTS Fruitport Community Schools NEXT WEEK’S BIRTHDAYS Howard Hardesty Mar 29
PROGRAMS / EVENTS 03/28 New Member Get Together
04/04 Muskegon Country Club 04/11 One in 21 Initiative 04/18 The Other Talk 04/25 TBA 05/02 French Resistance Fighter 05/09 Law Day Presentation 06/28 Party in the Park
09/25 Grape Escape
This Week on Stage Andrew Boyd is Director of U.S. Operations for Unión MicroFinanza, whose mission is “ to improve the economic capacities of impoverished rural communities by developing and applying the most advanced procedures and technology in microfinance.”
With President Jay and our other future presidents gone last week, Secretary Bill Loxterman, right, grabbed the administrative reigns and conducted a fine, highly-charged meeting. We had lots of guests and lots of announcements but, first, Bill began wading through an agenda left him by the absent Jay. Quite incredibly, it began with a beefy “This Day in History” featuring the account of journalist Henry M Stanley beginning his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone. By huge agreement, the essay was shortened but not before a couple of our relaxed members started snoring in the back of the room.
C R A Z Y C R A Z Y
March Madness
As if anyone else needs mentioning it … it’s that time of year again when the nation’s best basketball teams really put on a show. RIM and our many Rotarian alumni salute those competing in the NCAA, NIT, and high school hoops tournaments. May the best teams win, fair and square.
Jay Wallace, Jr, President Don Crandall, President-Elect Brianna Scott, President Nominee Bill Loxterman, Secretary Kathy Byma, Treasurer John Noling, Past President
Muskegon Rotary Club Club 216 (2809) – District 6290, Chartered May 1, 1916
March 28, 2013 12:10pm
Muskegon Harbor Holiday Inn http://www.muskegonrotary.org
Dave Alexander, Director Cathy Brubaker-Clarke, Director
Susan Cloutier-Myers, Director Steve Olsen, Director
Josh Wallace, Director Bill Johanson, RIM Editor
THE FOUR WAY TEST THAT ROTARIANS USE IN MAKING ETHICAL DECISIONS: Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build goodwill and better friendships? Will it be beneficial to all concerned? Program: Andrew Boyd “Unión MicroFinanza”
Last Week’s Program
New Ways of Cultivating
Young Leaders
by Cindy Timmerman Our very own proud mom Dawn
Johnson took a moment to introduce
her daughter Paij, right, prior to her
introduction of Adam Russell, left,
president
of the
American
Youth
Founda-
tion.
Adam then
gave our
group an
overview
of the
Michigan
Middle
School
Leadership
program
that
operates at Camp Miniwanca.
Annually, nearly 4000 kids attend
multi-day leadership and character
development programs at the camp.
Organizers of these sessions believe
that success is best achieved when the
“adults get out of the way” to allow
the kids to find their own voice and
develop programs to “change the
world”. Here, less structure and more
empowerment equal great things.
Ten middle school attendees from
10 Muskegon
County schools
have the
opportunity to
learn basic
leadership
skills and how
to be effective
in a group
during a 5-day
camp each
November.
Participants are
paired with relative strangers on day
one, but by the end of the week find
that they have formed great friendships
with future leaders throughout the
county. They are all then tasked to
change the world starting with a
project they can implement within
their own school building.
Mona Shores teachers Nicole and
Amanda introduced two young leaders
Katie and Stephan who then proceeded
to tell us of their year one project of
building a community through the use
of a blog and conversations meant to
help increase student self-esteem. The
focus for year two was a month-long
series of fundraisers where students
raised just over $4,000 to be donated
to the American Cancer Society.
Our group was then introduced to
Muskegon Middle School students
Paij and Shannon. Paij spoke of how
the MMSL program helped her
develop the confidence and skill set
necessary to work with peers and
adults and how those lessons
influenced how she presented herself
during her successful campaign to
become class president. Shannon
spoke of how his leadership group
decided to tackle the very serious
project of beautifying their school, the
former Steel Elementary, of graffiti in
the restrooms. Unfortunately the
graffiti reappeared, but these intrepid
young leaders then created a Graffiti
Wall as they understood the
importance of giving voice to all. He
further spoke of how attending this
camp helped him feel good about
himself and his community.
Each of us in that room is aware of
the need to cultivate future community
leaders. The MMLI is just one of
many wonderful leadership programs
available for us to help support within
this community. Cost to attend the
camp is $300 per student/$3,000 per
school. If you have any ideas as to
how to help this group develop
additional revenue sources please
contact Adam Russell at 231-861-2262
ext. 1111. He is also available on
Facebook.
‘Round Rotary’s RIM
Pam Babbitt again announced a
New Rotarian Get Together at Kay
and Gary Ostrom’s home on
March 28, from 4:30 to 6:30. This
is for all new Rotarians of less than
one year. Contact Pam for more
information: 231-798-2643 or
____________________________________________________________________
RIM Correspondents Chris Burnaw [email protected] Lee Coggin [email protected] Marty Ferriby [email protected] Jackie Fisher [email protected] Bill Johanson [email protected] Frank Marczak [email protected] Curt Mencer [email protected] Garry Olson [email protected] Bob Scolnik [email protected] Cindy Timmerman [email protected]
This publication, Muskegon Rotary in Motion (RIM), is intended for the private use of our members and friends.
The deadline for applications for
Muskegon Rotary Community
Grants is Monday, April 1.
Applications are completed and
submitted online only at
www.muskegonrotary.org. Click
on Guidelines for Grantmaking.
The Community Grants
Committee will meet April 8 at
4pm to consider requests. The next
deadline for requests to be
considered is September 1.
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It’s always a special meeting when
we welcome a new member. Last
week, we said hello to Christina
Scarpino, director of development
for Every Woman’s Place and an
avid volunteer in our community,
her sponsor Jim Fisher told us, as
he conducts, above, the always
tricky pinning ceremony.
Welcome Christina.
Pirun Weesommai, left, inbound Youth Exchange student from Thailand, took up speed skating this winter and he's done well, earning 3rd at the final state competition for
overall race. You can e-mail your
congratulations to Pirun at
It was the Club’s honor last week to welcome Baker College Rotaract’s Vice President Jessica Zuno, above left, and President Luisa Yonker. They came to Club to show their charter to us and express thanks for the Club’s support.
Muskegon Rotary Board
Jay Wallace, Jr [email protected] Don Crandall [email protected] Brianna Scott [email protected] Bill Loxterman [email protected] Kathy Byma [email protected] John Noling [email protected] Dave Alexander [email protected] Susan Cloutier-Myers [email protected] Cathy Brubaker-Clarke [email protected] Steve Olsen [email protected] Josh Wallace [email protected] ____________
He called for a stepladder and Bob Scolnik, above right, had just enough height to remove Eric Grimm’s red star.
Good job, Eric.
Still need a partner
Grape Escape 2013 is scheduled for
September 25, and Muskegon Rotary
is looking for a 501c3 partner. An
application - due back by Friday,
March 29, at 5:00pm - is attached to
this RIM’s cover note. The selected
organization will receive $10,000 of
the evening’s proceeds to be used
towards direct service programs that
show evidence-based outcomes.
Again, applications (see
attachment to this RIM’s cover
note) are due by Friday, March 29, at
5:00pm, and should be submitted via
e-mail to Co-Chair Chris Burnaw at
Youth Exchange student Mathias Rahbek-Borre, above left, presents his home Rotary club’s banner from Denmark to acting president Bill Loxterman
Guests last week were: West
Michigan Law attorney and
prospective member Adam Zuwerink
(Gary Nelund); Sam’s Club optical
manager and prospective member
Angie LaNore (Judy Hayner); Mona
Shores Interact students Olivia Fox
and Julie Jones (Shannan Conrad);
MMG sales manager Todd Riegler and
MLive sales director Brett Christie
(Steve Westphal); Michigan Works
exec and prospective member Jerry
Morlock (Gary Ostrom); Ledger
Solutions owner Steve Wheeler (Jerry
Wiersma); inbound Denmark Youth
Exchange student Mathias Rahbek-
Borre, and Baker College Rotaract
students Luisa Yonker and Jessica
Zuno (John Noling). Student guests
were Whitehall Vikings.
