Jun 7, 2018 Rotary Meeting

The guiding principles of Rotary (Object of Rotary and 4-Way Test) have been developed over the years to provide Rotarians with a strong, common purpose and direction. They serve as a foundation for our relationships with each other and the action we take in the world.[1]

The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

·        FIRST: The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;

·        SECOND: High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity              to serve society;

·        THIRD: The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;

·        FOURTH: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

 

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President Samantha Maruzzelli brought the meeting to order at 12:15 PM at Purkey’s Pink Apple with Glenn Holecomb reciting the 4-Way Test and leading the Pledge of Allegiance and Dave Wilson giving the Invocation.

 

 

 

 

Last Fri, Fran Turner flew out to Normandy for WWII events, all expenses paid. Pres. Samantha showed a video on Fran’s Facebook pages on his war service.

 

Vitto Sica was named Most Valuable Player on the TAHS Tennis Team.

 

Pres. Sam has all the order, sizing and cost info for the blue Rotary t-shirts with yellow printing and logo.  See Sam for the info if you want to order one.

 

 

Founder’s Day is Sat June 23 (10-4 PM). George needs 2 people per each of the 3 shifts, so please sign up at next week’s Club Assembly.  We will be in same spot as usual in front of the former Beads and Baubles.

 

 

On track and he will cover more info next week at Club Assembly.

 

 

2 membership inquiries.  A retired military man and his wife, who is a substitute Teacher, both want to join.  They were at the mixer. Harry will meet with them this afternoon.

 

Kelly Force, manager at Dollar General, cannot come to meetings, so she may be a candidate for the Passport Club. She mentioned that the Relay for Life is not well supported these days.  Pres. Sam mentioned Rotary used to enter a team in the past.

 

 

HOBY is a leadership program developed by the late actor, Hugh O’Brian. This year the gathering was at Shippensburg University.

Our next Meeting will be Thursday, June 14, which will be a club assembly.

 

President Samantha Maruzzelli adjourned the meeting at 1:30 PM.

 

The HOBY gathering was May 17 – May 22.

 

The top 10% of their class was invited to apply.  They wrote an essay on their leadership qualities and the winners were selected.

 

Emily talked about the first day at HOBY where they assessed their leadership skills.  The gathering was big on cheers, they learned at least 1 per day.  They did a Rooks and Tooks activity. They learned how to communicate with each other with a language barrier. Each day ended with group time and talk about their favorite activities.

 

Elizabeth - On Friday, they went to Harrisburg Capital building and heard from a former HOBY Ambassador, Rep. Kate Klunk, who is in the legislature.  They were divided into groups and into minority and majority parties and considered different laws.  They had a mock legislative session in the house and voted on the proposed laws.

 

The food was very good. 

 

On Sat, they went out into the community to do service work.

 

Emily’s group worked with the Friends of Midtown Harrisburg. They heard from multiple speakers including the Mayor. There are 16 wall murals in downtown, and she got to see some of them on her work detail. They split into 2 groups: 1 cleaned and weeded the park. Group 2 (her group) went with kids that have barrel planters around Harrisburg. They cleaned them out and planted flowers.

 

Elizabeth did a service project with the Boys and Girls Club of Harrisburg.  They do a lot of programs with little money.  Planet Fitness partnering with B&G and putting in new gyms, so they clear out the old equipment and tidied up the facilities.

 

They then wrote thank you letters to people who helped with or sponsored HOBY activities.

 

They had a Panel on The Role of Business as community leaders and then a talk about “Finding Your Passion Through Leadership Services”.

 

Sunday was a wrap up and life after HOBY.  They were challenged to do 100 hr of service in the year following their HOBY to win awards for different levels of service.

 

They felt that the best part was the service projects and meeting kids from other parts of the state.

 

Emily Stanski (left) and Elizabeth DeMarco