Rotary Club of High Point Thursday 12:00 Noon 800 Country Club Drive

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1 The Spokesman PROGRAM: Dr. Sharon Contreras, Superintendent TOPIC: Guilford County Schools Introduction: Tom Blount Invocation: David Wall Sergeant-At-Arms: Dwight Shaw & Janice Steede Greeters: Justin Peek & Mary Sizemore Rotary Club of High Point Thursday 12:00 Noon 800 Country Club Drive Rotary Zone 33 Rotary District 7690 Rotary Club # 6062 Web: (club) (district) (int l) This Week at Rotary Dr. Sharon Contreras Superintendent Guilford County Schools Last Week at Rotary Tammy Childress, still counting down the days until the pass off of the gavel, was presiding last Thursday. She led us in the pledge and Steve Ilderton led us in prayer. Bill Kester welcomed a number of guests in attendance including a club past president, Pete Moffitt. Kem McAllister, still sorting through potential grandmother names, handled the special recognitions. Maybe we should have a fund raiser where for a certain donation to the Foundation you get to suggest a grandmother name for Kem and then a winning one gets drawn from all the entries. Think she would go for that? Probably not. Anyway, she highlighted a write up on our own Leigh Anne Kasias in a Greensboro periodical before getting into birthdays and anniversaries. And wow, birthday boys and die hard Clemson Tigers David Jackson and Clark Pierce were both in attendance on their birthday! Dave McCoy, fresh from District conference in Pinehurst, presented the Gold Club Plaque he picked up in the Sandhills to President Tammy. Joel Gentry was up next to give away some more money! Three more grants were awarded Thursday starting with a $ 2,500 grant to Lisa Hawley for her 'Feeding Lisa's Kids' program. Not only do they feed hungry children and their (cont. on page four) Read-A-Thon Project See Page 4 Still Giving Away Money! See Page 5 District Conference Flashback See Page 3

2 ROTARY CLUB of HIGH POINT Officers, Boards, Committees President Tammy Childress President Elect Vice President Secretary Jeff Fuller Steve Ilderton Kem Ellis Treasurer Ken Esposito Immediate Past President Stan Godwin Executive Secretary David McCoy Sergeant-At-Arms Amy West District Liaison David McCoy Membership Retention George White Special Recognitions D. Shaw, K. McAllister, J. Anderson, J. Gentry Family of Rotary Sharon Smith New Comer's Committee George White Blue Badge Administration George White Football Pool Master David Pritchett Rotary History David Wall Birthday Cards Nancy Bowman Membership Recruitment Wil Elder Classification Monica Peters Orientation Robert Hoskins Attendance Kem Ellis Social Events Wil Elder Club Public Relations Mary Sizemore Spokesman Newsletter Mark Pierce Website Development Dave McCoy Facebook Carol Hughes Press Releases Kem Ellis Club Administration Mark Pierce/ A. Maille Anniversary Celebration Mark Pierce District Conf. Contacts T. Childress/ J. Fuller Youth Services Kai Robinson/ R. Kerr Interact Wanda Stewart, Keith Curlee RYLA Julie Muenzner Local Scholarships Brian Bunch School/Student Relations Greg Suire/Carol Hughes Job Shadowing Wanda Stewart Children's Christmas Party Jeff Fuller Youth Service Chair John Curcio Community Srvc Projects Joel Campbell Literacy (Read-A-Thon) Mary Sizemore Concern For The Elderly Steve Ilderton Salvation Army Bell Ringing Leigh Anne Kasias Service Projects Gene Williams Fundraising Projects Jordan Lessard BBQ & Auction Stan Godwin/ G. White Poinsettia Sale Greg Suire Golf Tournament Tyler Adamson ACC Day Nancy Bowman Allocations Joel Gentry Foundation & Inter. Srv. Don Shaw Polio Plus R. Ragan/ D. McCoy District Grants Mark Pierce Programs Tom Blount ABSENCES FOR THE MEETING Of May 31st Abeles Atkinson J. Baker Bennett Boone Bulmer F. Clodfelter Curcio Curlee Br. Davis Draelos Freeze Gibson Godwin Harris Hoskins C. Hughes K. Hughes Johnson Kasias Kerr Lessard M. Miller Montgomery P. Morgan Morris Muenzner Nelson Parrish Peters Robinson-Spinks Stewart Suire Webster West White Whitley Youngblood (L) Don t Forget To Do A Make-Up! MAKE UPS FOR THE MEETING of May 31st BOARD MEETING: Godwin 3/5, Kerr 12/4, Lessard 2/5 BELL RINGING: Boone 12/2, West 12/2, White 12/2 GOLF TOURNAMENT: Curlee 5/10 READ-A-THON: M. Morgan 5/30 MAKE UP OPPORTUNITIES Monday Furnitureland - String & Splinter 12 noon Greensboro-Crescent-Realtor Assoc. 12:30 pm Tuesday GSO-Airport-Cardinal Club 7:00 am Asheboro Pinewood C.C. 12 noon Lexington YMCA 12:15 pm Guilford Weir Jordan House 12:30 pm W-S Benton Convention Center 12:30 pm Jamestown Jamestown Town Hall 6:00 pm Wednesday Kernersville First Christian Church 7:00 am Archdale-Trinity Guil-Rand Fire Dept 12 noon Thomasville Woman s Club 12:05 pm Asheboro Randolph AVS Catering Banquet Center 12 noon Greensboro-Coliseum Sp. EventsCtr 12:30 pm Thursday Greensboro-Gate City-O Henry Hotel 7:00 am W-S Stratford Forsyth C.C. 12:30 pm Friday GSO Summit-Starmount Forest CC 12:30 pm Ron Wimberly Can t Take Home the $252 With the Draw of the Ace of Diamonds

3 P.D.G. & Our Club s Executive Secretary Dave McCoy Was There Two PDG s and a Future Rotarian. You know Dave. Charles Allen is the other PDG DISTRICT CONFERENCE 2018 Village of Pinehurst Greensboro s Claudia Cannady will ascend to the Presidency of Rotary District 7690 On June 18th District Executive Secretary Margaret Padgett (left) Will Retire End of June Dave is pictured with our incoming D.G. Claudia and her husband. A.V. Dave Keeps Those Videos Rolling Under the High Point Club Banner, Dave Shows Off Our New GOLD CLUB AWARD June 14, 2018 Myrna Wigley Women in Motion June 21, 2018 Sanford Danziger & Susan Baggett Looking Forward COMING ATTRACTIONS June 28, 2018 CHANGING OF THE GUARD July 5th NO MEETING Happy 4th Mark Mortensen Put New Faces on Those Who Fought in World War I

4 Last Week at Rotary families, but 100% of donations go to buy food. No overhead expenses are paid from donations. Lisa said they feed meals a month to families that total 500 individuals. Her financial needs are $ 11,000 a month. John Langdon of Helping Hands picked up a $ 700 grant for his organization that runs a backpack feeding program. Those funds will buy them a much needed storage unit. The High Point Arts Council took home a $ 2,000 grant to underwrite scholarships for this summer's John Coltrane Jazz Workshop. Debbie Lumpkins was on hand to pick up that check. Joel Campbell stepped to the microphone next to tell us about a summer feeding opportunity that is afforded our club. We need roughly ten people who will help some on Saturdays and Sundays through the Summer. If we get enough 'helpers', no one will be overburdened by the weekend schedule. Ken Esposito got everyone's attention when he came into the room, this week actually remembering how much was in the pot. However, he forgot the deck of clubs. While he retrieved them, Tammy reminded those in the audience that we are a volunteer organization! Back at the podium, Ken announced the winning ticket for a draw at the $ 252 pot. Ron Wimberly jumped to his feet to draw, but he came away with a losing Ace of Clubs. Tom Blount introduced the day's program, Mark Mortensen of Greensboro, who was talking on World War I and particularly Marine George W. Hamilton. He started out talking about some North Carolinians in World War I including a number from Greensboro. But he got around to his main topic and that was George W. Hamilton, who is also the topic of a book by our speaker. Based on reports from the museum at Quantico and several other publications, Hamilton was arguably the greatest marine in World War I. He was up against some stiff competition too as World War I also gave us Sgt. York, Eddie Rickenbacker, General Lejeune, and General Pershing, each with probably more notoriety than Hamilton. Consider, however, that Hamilton took leadership of his forces when 90% of their officers and over 50% of their company was lost. He put himself in danger for the sake of survivors and to finish their mission. At one point their 1,000 men had dwindled to 168. So why didn't we hear much about him? Well Pershing lent a U.S. Battalion to the French during the war and their actions, especially those of Hamilton, went unnoticed on the home front. Plus, General Pershing was given command of all U.S. forces in W.W. I so the Marines ended up fighting under the Army. In fact, no Marine Corps officer received a Medal of Honor in World War I because they were fighting for the Army and not their own service branch. Hamilton twice was recommended to receive the Medal of Honor, once by Major General Wendell Cushing Neville of the United States Marine Corps. He was a Medal of Honor recipient and 14th Commandant of the Marine Corps between 1929 and General Lejeune also made an attempt on Hamilton's behalf. Hamilton died in a biplane crash, preventing him from ascending to higher ranks within the Marine Corp. A couple of interesting sidebars: Mortensen had his father's heavily dented World War I helmet on display at the meeting. Also, Hamilton's father was known as the Dean of the Congressional Press Corps. Following the presentation of the speaker's gift, we adjourned with the Four Way Test. Rotary Read-a-thon Wrap Up Many Thanks to all the readers who showed up at Johnson Street School last week to read to the children. But we are not through yet. Every child we read to gets their own book and we still need to underwrite the cost of those books. Each book is $5. Thank you to all who have already given, but we need more Rotarians to step up and donate to this important outreach to the children of Johnson Street School. Let Dave know what you will give, or make a note on the Rotary Attendance Sheet at this week s meeting!

5 MORE MONEY TO GIVE AWAY.... This Never Gets Old! Lisa Hawley Feeding Lisa s Kids $ 2,500 John Langdon Helping Hands $ 700 Debbie Lumpkins H. P. Arts Council $ 2,000 The Faces of a Very Busy Rotary Meeting Thursday Include (l to r top) Bill Kester, Kem McAllister, Dave McCoy, Tammy Childress, Joel Campbell, and Tom Blount Center Picture is Dave McCoy Presenting our Gold Club Award to President Tammy Childress. (l to r bottom) Joel Gentry, Lisa Hawley, John Langdon, and Debbie Lumpkins Happy anniversary Bart & Barbra Lassiter Sun. June 3rd 40 yrs. Hugh & Harriet Bennett Mon. June 4th 58 yrs. Justin & Ashley Peek Mon. June 4th 2 yrs. Megan & Brian Ward Wed June 6th 9 yrs. Joe & Fran Craycroft Thurs. June 7th 60 yrs. Bobby & Natalie Jackson Thurs. June 7th 21 yrs. Kem & Steve McAllister Fri. June 8th 33 yrs.