Emmaus Rotary Trumpet May 9, 2017 (May 09, 2017)

We meet at 7.30AM on Thursday mornings at Brookside Country Club, 901 Willow Lane, Macungie, PA 18062

2017-2018 President

Burt Duren

District 7430 Governor

Rick Gromis

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10th Annual Emmaus Rotary Club Golf Tournament

Brookside Country Club

Sep 11, 2017
11:00 AM – 7:00 PM

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President

Burt Duren

Immediate Past President

Jeffrey McElhaney

President Elect

Rick Zayaitz

Vice President

Steve Gould

Secretary

Ray Schumaker

Treasurer

Chris Wills

Sergeant at Arms

Dale Dries

Director

Steve Auvil

Director

Ceil Birdsell

Director

Valerie Deneen

Director

Gary Guthrie

President's Message - May 9, 2017

This past weekend was our district conference for Rotary District 7430's and it was quite a weekend! The agenda was jam packed highlighting projects through out the year, mingling with the Zambian's, Romanian's and our youth exchange students. Razia Jan, an Afghan Rotarian who built and supports schools for Afghanistan's girls, spoke to the group and left a lasting impact. Student's squared off in the Four Way Speech Contest finals. An Allentown Rotarian highlighted the impact of PTSD and how he believes we can bring veterans groups together and help them cope with the weighing concern. There were many impactful projects, ideas shared, and there was much fun had by all.

Emmaus Rotarians Roger Whitcomb and his wife Roberta, Gary Rohrbach and his wife Dee, Burt Duren and his wife Donna, Cindy Hornaman and her husband Chris, Sue Straeter, Alicia Ruiz-Orbin, and I all attended the conference. It was quite enlightening to me at the evening hospitality suites. Rotarians serve first, but clearly like to have fun! Cindy and Gary were tearing up the dance floor! They better have a few happy dollars.

This Thursday is an exciting and busy day for Emmaus Rotary. We have our Romanian Friendship Exchange team visiting and speaking at our morning session. I had the chance to meet and talk with many of them and they're a lot of fun. In addition to our regular morning meeting, we have our Scholarship Social Fundraiser Thursday night at Yergey Brewing and Triple Sun Distillery from 6 PM - 8 PM with the band Sunshine Symphony. There is no cover charge. Beverages will be on you, but 10% of the proceeds from the entire evenings business (open to public) will go to the Emmaus Rotary Scholarship fund. We will also be having a 50/50 as well as some very nice raffle baskets. Switchback Pizza will be set up in the lobby offering food for purchase as well. I hope to see you Thursday for a fun filled day of building goodwill and better friendships!

Speaker John Washington

John Washington a Rotarian from the Conshocken Club stopped by with an important message. A little about John: He was in law enforcement for 21 years as a Lt. supervising 20 other Bicycle police officers on the University of Penn campus. Their police force was 125 strong for a campus in Philadelphia and it also as its own SWAT team. John was shot twice in the line of duty both time he had his vest on. He lives with a back that has been broken three times and he has three rods keeping him upright. I am going to try an paint a picture of John as I met him on Thursday morning. A gentleman is putting his presentation together but he has on Plaid Bermuda shorts, an orange shirt with a United States Customs Fire Arms specialist shirt. He is balding about 5'10" tall with a pair of sun glasses hanging on the back of his head. (Dale took advantage of his looking out of the back of his head) John is a very interesting guest. He first found out about Rotary through a program we had called GSA and he traveled to a third world country for a 6-8 weeks experience that was cut short because of the economy in the country and the fact that every Rotary club had disbanded and they had no where to live. But John being an avid firefighter for over 40 years promised to come back and donate necessary items to the fire department in the town he was visiting.

To make a really long story short John went back 5 years later and donated $2500 worth of fire equipment to the town. Coming back to the states after his first return trip, he met up with a Rotary member and the member asked why he did not ask Rotary for a matching grant to make his monies go farther. John said because even though he was a GSA member he never was asked to become a Rotarian. He was then asked and now has been a Rotarian for over 13 years and has made the town he visits every few years very happy going back three times to give them the much needed fire equipment they desperately needed. He has helped one fine young women become the only Female Paul Harris recipient in this country by negotiating the fire equipment (holding it hostage until they made her a Paul Harris).

John's story is called P.R.I.D.E. and is an acronym to help other Rotarians remember that no one is going to toot our horn better the we will. Ask other like minded people if they would like to join Rotary. Make sure when you have a project everyone knows about it and we invite the media and utilize Social Media. Know when other clubs meet so if you meet someone and they cannot make an Emmaus Rotary meeting but are more comfortable with Allentown West tell them the time and place where they meet so we can build Rotary everywhere not only in our club. He asked JP a question about membership and how we guide new members through the process. JP handled it extremely well.

To sum it up John had presentation that was right on target for all Rotarians. He did think we had some work to do in the area of diversity, we have gender diversity but we lack in color and culture diversity. Keep Rotary in the fore front of all you do, toot or own horn and keep the humanitarian projects going.

Below is a picture of John's club receiving the Community service of the year award for Plymouth Whitemarsh/Conschocken Rotary Club

John Hayes Remembered

Cool Story & Short Video Sent in From Uncle Bob Halsey

This is very interesting. About 25-Years ago, while I was Manager for True Value, I went to a unique Symposium at the former Bethlehem Steel Offices on top of South Mountain. It was a Luncheon being held to explain the importance of providing Clean Water For The World. I don’t remember the name of the Leader, who was the Main Speaker, followed by several young College Students that had just come back from Africa where they were working on a Water Project. This was before Solar Electric Power was really in vogue. One thing that “Stuck With Me All These Years Was The Closing Comment Made By The Main Speaker”. IN THE FUTURE WARS WILL NOT BE FOUGHT OVER LAND, OIL OR MONEY, THEY WILL BE FOUGHT OVER GETTING CLEAN WATER!

This short Video, sent to me by a Jewish Friend, now living in Arizona, shows what some of the Israel Nation is doing to help Africa get Clean Water to some Villages in Africa! This Video shows what can be done when People Work Together To Help Other Areas Of The World!

I know that Rotary International & Engineers Without Borders also are doing this work as well. Solar Power is driving a lot of Projects in areas of the World where Electricity just isn’t available like everyone in the US has.

Club Social May 11th

Rotary D7430 District Training Assembly May 20th

Dear District Rotarians,

Registration is now open for the Rotary D7430 District Training Assembly on Saturday, May 20th. The training will be held in the Parkhouse Hall on the campus of Montgomery County Community College, 340 Dekalb Pike, Blue Bell, PA 19422 starting at 8 am.

Who Should Attend:

Presidents, Presidents-Elect, Treasurers, Secretaries, Club Officers, Committee Chairs, New & Experienced Rotarians, Leaders, anyone wanting to do good in their community.

What To Expect:

Learn from other leaders, find inspiration, get new ideas, meet old friends and gain new friends.

Topics:

Goals & Theme for 2017-18, Membership, TRF, Be a Rotary Champion, Membership Development/Retention, The 100th Year of our Rotary Foundation, Fundraising Idea Exchange, Why you should Consider Doing a Global Grant, Youth in our District, Secretary and Treasurer Training, Strategic Planning, Effective Social Media...............

Price $35......Includes Continental Breakfast and Executive Boxed Lunch

Plus Optional Grant Certification Training Session from 1:45- 3:45 pm

Event Schedule

8:00-8:30 am Registration- Continental Breakfast

8:30-9:30 am Plenary Session 1:

Welcome by DG Linda Young

2017-18 Rotary Theme

DGE Rick Gromis's Vision for the coming year

TRF and its Centennial year

Youth in our District

9:30-9:45 am Break / Visit Committee Tables

9:45-10:45 am Break Out Session 1: (selection made when you register/purchase ticket)

PE & AG Workshop (mandatory for all PE's & AG's)

Fundraising

Strategic Planning

Club Treasurer Training

Using Social Media Effectively

10:45- 11:00 am Break / Visit Committee Tables

11:00- 12:00 pm Break Out Session 2:

Why you should consider doing a Global Grant

Fundraising

Club Secretary Training

Strategic Planning

Hands on Club Central/Rotary Branding Center

12:00-1:30 pm Lunch/Plenary Session 2:

Youth Exchange Procession of Flags

4-Way Speech Contest winner

Membership Development and Retention

Closing Address from DGE Rick Gromis

1:45- 3:45 pm Foundation Grant Certification Training (optional)

(please note you have to be registered for the event to attend this training session)

To register go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rotary-d7430-district-training-assembly-tickets-33154170015

REGISTRATION CLOSES on Sunday, May 14th

President's & Club Recognition Dinner - Wednesday JUNE 21st

REMINDER tomorrow night, Wednesday June 21st

President's & Club Recognition Dinner

Lower Macungie Community Center

Attire is Casual

RESERVATIONS FOR THE EVENT ARE CLOSED

There will not be a morning meeting on Thursday in lieu of the Dinner.

MEMBER RESPONSIBILITIES

Check the list below to see if you are scheduled to serve as Greeter & Raffle, Sign-in Table, Invocation or EREY.

If you will not be at the meeting when you have an assignment, please arrange for another member to swap with you or cover for you. NOTE-CHANGES MAY BE MADE FROM PREVIOUS TRUMPETS.

Thank you for taking your turn and helping Emmaus Rotary Club run a smooth meeting.

July 13, 2017

Ajamu - Greeter & Raffle

DePaolo & Auvil - Sign-in Table

Backer - Invocation

Berlin - EREY

July 20, 2017

Birdsell - Greeter & Raffle

Blose & Boyer - Sign-in Table

Brinker - Invocation

Chisca - EREY

July 27, 2017

Cleveland - Greeter & Raffle

Coult & Cozzubbo - Sign-in Table

Delhagen - Invocation

Deneen - EREY

Aug 3, 2017

Dunn - Greeter & Raffle

Epperly & Erdman - Sign-in Table

Erle - Invocation

Fornwalt - EREY

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Here's What's Happening at This Weeks

Emmaus Rotary Club Meeting

July 13, 2017.......Alisa Bowman Speaks About Transgender People

Rotary is a place where members get informed about subjects of interest in the community, especially on topics where there is a lack of information. Transgender people are becoming a more common topic in the media, in legislation and in our community.

National Geographic in January 2017 and Time Magazine on Mar 15, 2017 did cover stories on trans people. An article in January 2017 The Rotarian magazine page 30 discussed transgender Rotarians. The Morning Call covered a trans student in East Penn School District in September 2016. In 2017, the Boy Scouts allowed transgender children in their programs.

There are about 92 transgender people living in Macungie and 34 transgender people live in Emmaus, based on 0.3 percent of the US are transgender people.

Our speaker July 13th is the mom of a transgender child in Emmaus and will tell you her family’s story. She is also the co-author of a book on the subject called Raising the Transgender Child: A Complete Guide for Parents, Families, and Caregivers by Michele Angello and our speaker Alisa Bowman. Jim Palmquist will have a copy of the book to give away to anyone who is interested in reading more about the topic. The first one to ask Jim for the book gets it!

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July 20, 2017.........Karen Hobson - Classification Talk

July 27, 2017.........Scholarship Awards Presentation & Ron Nelson &

Peace Corps & African Adventures

Aug 3, 2017.........David Dunn - Classification Talk

Sept 14, 2017............District Governor Rick Gromis