Broadway Comes To Rotary!
Well, not quite Broadway, but a fun time at the first club meeting of the year! Margaret Evans’ birthday was missed last month, so a special quartet +1 helped sing Happy Birthday at the meeting today. Our ‘volunteers’ included PDG Mel Simon, Dave Nadler, Matt Willis, newest Rotarian, Amber Johnson, and Fellowship Chairperson, Gordon Amsbary. Thank you all!
President Shirley Doss rang the bell to call the meeting to order promptly at 7:15 am on a very snowy morning. Our attendance was a bit weak, but Rotarians slipped in as the meeting continued.
Monthly Board Meeting—President Shirley recommended we NOT have the regular monthly board meeting today and move all the business to the next month’s meeting which will be February 7th right after the morning meeting.
Coin Box—Emily Dailey turned in a Rotary coin box for her contribution to the Rotary Foundation. This is a great way to make your loose change do some great Rotary work!
Fellowship—Gordon Amsbary led off our first club fellowship for the new year talking about large divorce settlements and some resolutions. Jodie McCalla popped in a bit late as did Bonnie McFarland and Zac Fosler. No fines were incurred due to the inclement weather. The club enjoyed the special quartet +1 who sang to Margaret Evans for her birthday.
Rotary Reading on Wednesday—Project Chairman, Emily Dailey, brought books for Rotary Readers for this month. We have two Scholastic Publishers picks—“Please Write Back” and “Noodles—I Love Snow.” We don’t seem to have enough readers for this month, so some schools will slip to next Wednesday. Please contact Emily if you would like to help out in this great project!
Program—We didn’t have a regular
program today, but Chuck Clark volunteered to speak briefly about his experiences last month in Antigua, Guatemala. Chuck presented a club banner from the Rotary Club of Antigua and spoke about the projects presently being undertaken by the local club there.
It was apparent from his talk that Chuck had a great experience in this Central American country, and he went on to add that there is an opportunity for Gallipolis 
Rotarians to get involved in Rotary’s work there. RI operates a self-sustaining program called the Guatemala Literacy Project (GLP) where our club can participate with a Guatemala Rotary Club to help school literacy in Guatemala. There are ‘hands-on’ opportunities every February for Rotarians to help in this project! Chuck has a video from RI and we will be learning more about it in the near future.
Stay warm and safe this week and see everyone back at next Tuesday’s meeting!
Here is a listing for Program responsibilities for the next few weeks:
Jan 10 Shana Booher
Jan 17 Bob Hood
Jan 24 Lou Ellen Werry
Jan 31 Zac Fosler