THE GALLIPOLIS ROTARY CLUB

Gallipolis Rotary hosted District Governor Brent Rosenthal and his wife, Sylvia, at this morning’s club meeting.  Above are, AG Matt Willis; DG Brent Rosenthal accepting a Rotary mug from Club President, Shirley Doss; and Sylvia Rosenthal.  The District Governor and his wife enjoyed a working meeting with club officers and directors on Monday evening at the Quality Inn.

Club President, Shirley Doss welcomed assembled Rotarians and guests.  Our guest today was Sammy Lopez, Publisher of the Gallipolis Daily Tribune and Rotarian from Carlsbad, NM.  Sammy was a guest of PDG Mel Simon.  It was good to see Honorary Rotarian Don  and Alvera Robinson with us today as well as Lydia Simon.  Always good to have you with us.

Jr. Fair Pageant—Project Chair, Jodie McCalla, briefed the club on the successful Livestock Royalty Pageant our club sponsors at the Gallia Junior Fair.  The Pageant was a little late starting this year due to the goat competition which was a little ‘b-a-a-d’, but we were pleased with the 30 entries and the quality of the judges!  Our winners for this year included: Livestock Queen, Michaela Hall; Queen Runner-up, Hattie Jarrell; Senior Princess Teah Elliott;  Senior Princess Runner-up, Jennifer Stump; Junior Princess, Abby VanSickle; and Junior Princess Runner-up, Riley Sanders.  Pictures from the event are in a previous entry on this blog and our club’s Facebook page. (more…)

Saturday afternoon, July 23, Gallipolis Rotary Club sponsored the Gallia Jr. Fair Livestock Queen and Princess Pageant.  Committee Chair, Jodie McCalla organized and MC’d the event on behalf of the Rotary Club.

Picture above are Livestock Queen, Michaela Hall; Queen Runner-up, Hattie Jarrell; Senior Princess Teah Elliott; Jodie McCalla, Senior Princess Runner-up, Jennifer Stump; Junior Princess, Abby VanSickle; and Junior Princess Runner-up, Riley Sanders.

Here are a number of pictures from Saturday’s event:

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District Governor Visit—President Shirley Doss reminded the club that next week, July 26th, is the official visit by District Governor Brent Rosenthal and First Lady, Sylvia, to Gallipolis Rotary.  We have an super, extra breakfast ordered and want to show DG Brent a great turnout of Rotarians for this meeting.  Be sure to attend next Tuesday morning!

President Shirley welcomed Rotarians and guests to the regular meeting of the Gallipolis Rotary club. Our guests included Heather Crum, who has recently submitted her application for membership, and our speaker for the day, Lora Jenkins.

Monday Evening Dinner—President Shirley also reminded everyone there will be a dinner for officers, directors, and committee chairs on Monday evening at the Quality Inn.  There will be a social hour from 5 – 6 pm and dinner shortly after.  We will be ordering from the menu and everyone is responsible for their own charges.

Make-up and Banner Exchange—Paul Koch returned recently from vacation on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and made up at the North Banks Rotary club.  Paul said it was a great experience, fairly informal and friendly group!  Shirley showed off their club banner and Secretary Chuck is sending one of ours to their club.  If you know you are going to visit a distant club be sure to request a trading banner from Chuck Clark. (more…)

Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, Elaine Householder, addressed Gallipolis Rotary today at its regular morning meeting updating the club on her plans for study in Northern Ireland this fall.  Elaine, a Gallia county native graduated last December from The Ohio State University and will be traveling to Derry, Ireland to live and study at the University of Ulster Magee Campus.  Her chosen area of study is Peace and Conflict Studies.

In addition to her studies, Elaine will visit 10-15 local Rotary clubs in Northern Ireland to speak, exchange banners and promote one or more projects to be jointly sponsored with Gallipolis Rotary.  The first project is a literacy project and the second project to provide small grants through YouthBank for local community beautification or conflict resolution projects.  Elaine will be leaving the US for Ireland shortly after Labor Day.  Thank you for sharing your vision for your studies in Ireland.

President Shirley Doss welcomed Rotarians and guests to the morning meeting.  Chuck Clark had a guest, Heather Crum, from Farmer’s Bank.  Heather has made application to join Gallipolis Rotary.  Our other guests included Elaine Householder and Ben Joy.  Welcome, everyone! (more…)