THE LIGHT, Volume 84, No. 4, October 3, 2007 Rotary Club of Maywood Bulletin
Attendance
September 6, 2007 - Bruno, Fox, Hall, Laabs, Lewis, Libka, McKinsey, Mitchell, Murphy, Peoples, Smith, Sykes, Williams, Wilson, Woll-G, Woll-J, Wright
September 13, 2007 – Anderson, Bruno, Dawson, Ervin, Hall, Klaas, Laabs, Lewis, Libka, Murphy, Sykes, Williams, Wood, Wright
September 20, 2007 - Anderson, Ervin, Hall, Huntington, Lewis, Libka, Mitchell, Murphy, Sykes, Williams, Wilson, Wright
September 27, 2007 - Bruno, Dawson, Fox, Hall, Laabs, Lewis, Libka, Mitchell, Murphy, Peoples, Sykes, Williams, Wright
Guests: Sept. 6th: Reena Murphy (Murphy), James JW Parker IV (Mitchell), Brian Parker (Mitchell), Marcel Davis (PLCCA) Sept. 13th: Bill Detters (Bruno) Marcel Davis (PLCCA) Sept. 20th: Modupe Oladeinde (Wright), Marcel Davis (PLCCA) Sept. 27th: Marcel Davis (PLCCA)
Make-ups
Sept. 6th: Bill von Stein (Elmhurst) Sept.13th: Bruno, Dawson (Western Springs Fish Fry), Laabs (Melrose Park) Sept. 20th: J. Woll, G. Woll (Swansboro, NC) Sept. 27th: G. Woll (Melrose Park), Laabs (Cruise Mtg)
Speakers
Sept. 6th: Dr. Terry Smith, Director of PAEC (Proviso Area for Exceptional Children) gave us an update on what has been happening at this great learning institution.
Sept. 13th: Dr. Julie Robinson, Clinic Director of Concordia University Chicago Community Counseling Center joined us to spread the word on this wonderful program available to all who can get to it. Please visit WWW.CUChicago.edu to read about all they have to offer.
Sept. 20th: Pastor Eliot Winbush graced us with a very moving musical number. He explained how the First Congregational Church of Maywood is reaching out to the community to serve as well as inspire. Although this site is in need of updating, you can read about this community icon at http://www.firstchurchmaywood.org.
Sept. 27th: Robert Libka, our new Superintendent of District 209 gave his first public appearance since accepting this position. He touched base on several topics you will soon hear about in the local media. Please judge him for your self by reading his reports to the board after each meeting at http://www.pths209.org.
Club Business
If you haven’t seen Jim Mitchell with your ad for our placemats, please do. The cost is $60 for a business card size ad. We need to fill about 40 spaces so tell your friends, family and business associates about this inexpensive form of advertisement.
Saturday, November 3rd is the date for our Annual Auction. As a reminder, every member is responsible for $100.00 (10 tickets) in ticket sales and $100.00 in donations. Tickets were passed out, so if you did not receive yours please see Chuck Laabs. Donations can be gathered from local businesses, friends, family, co-workers, or anyone else you can think of. Items should be new, gently used, or really cool. Think…would you bid on this if you wanted it? Donations can be in the form of dinners, seminars, gift certificates, vacation spots, airline miles, theater tickets, etc.. See Gary Woll for additional Contribution Forms. Remember this is the one major event of the year. The success of this event is directly related to our charitable giving and with recent state budget cuts our local organizations will need additional support. Please get all ticket money and especially donations in by October 25th so that final details can be completed.
Just a friendly reminder that 2nd quarter membership dues are now due. Please see John Lewis if you have any questions.
Reminders
The next board meeting will take place on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at the home of Chuck & Jewel Laabs here in Maywood. Please RSVP to Chuck at charles.laabs@cuchicago.edu so that they can plan accordingly.
Save the date: Thursday, October 25th. Kaboom will be in need of 100 volunteers to help build a playground at Central Park here in Maywood. Please visit their site at www.kaboom.org for more information. This project is one that President Dawson hopes all members participate in. It will be an exciting day for the children and for Maywood.
Program for October 4, 2007
Rich Vander Molen of BFI/Waste Management
Program for October 11, 2007
Bill Birth Strom of Hauling/Greenwood Transfer Station
Program for October 18, 2007
Larry Rassin of Aetna Plywood
Program for October 25, 2007
Joe Hogan of 1st Suburban Bank
Etcetera…
Congratulations go out to our newest member Jason Ervin. May his reign be long as Maywood’s new Village Manager. Good luck.
Bonnie Libka
