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President Tom called our meeting to order today at The St. Catharines Golf & Country Club. Joining the President at the head table:
- Speaker Introducer: Don Fraser
- Speakers: Valerie Jaeger and Melodie Shick-Porter
- Sgt-at-Arms: Larry Iggulden
- Member: Dinner & Registration – Ross MacDonald
- Registrar: Ross MacDonald
It was with great sadness that President Tom asked for a moment of silence to recognize the passing of Bill Oakes. Bill was a member of Rotary for 29 years and 4 months. He became an Honorary Member of our Club on November 23, 2004. He was our Club Secretary from 1996 – 2000, Chair of The Senior’s Committee in 1995 – 1996, and served most recently on the Senior Citizen’s, Membership, Charitable Trust and Classification Committees.
Grace: Liz Palmieri
O Canada: Don Shaw
Toast to the Queen and Canada: by President Tom
Ross MacDonald
- Visiting Rotarian
Donna Webb – Vancouver Arbutus Rotary Club
- Visiting Rotarian Frederick Dyck – Vancouver Arbutus Rotary
- Paul Macdonald, guest of Doug Foss
- Ryan Carson, Guest of Rob Reid
- Diana Ellingham, guest of Ian Ellingham
- Cameron Douglas, guest of John Nitsopoulos
- Scott Crocco, guest of Scott Heelis
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Janet Johnston, Ron Basset, Kim Widdicombe
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Ten-Day Notice
- Paul MacDonald has been proposed for membership by Doug Foss. Paul is the owner and President of The Right Stuff located on St. Paul Street. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Downtown Business Association.
- Ryan Carson has been proposed for membership by Rob Reid. Ryan is a Commercial Law lawyer with Lancaster Brooks & Welch. He is a past referee for baseball and football and a coach for minor hockey and baseball.
- Cindy Mewhinney has been proposed by Walter Sendzik.
District 9070 Newsletter:
In the latest District Newsletter you will find stories on:
- Wilf Wilkinson Speaks to Membership Conferences
- Welland Rotarians Find a Clever Way to Connect with their Twinned Club
- Eastern Cities Dinner Announcement – in Rochester - RI President
- Wilf, will be the guest speaker, and a “Salute to Canada” theme is planned in his honor – see page 2.
- DG Bob Writes…..
- New Members Inducted
- Membership Chair Andy Skrypniak Congratulates Middleport
- Presidents’ Caring & Sharing – George Spinnegan, Arthur Meens, Mark Gaskin, Edwin Meyer, Leo Nalbach
- Membership and Attendance figures (Ed. note: our club started the year at 134 and ended with 140. We gained 12 new members and lost 6.)
- Short Takes…..club doings
Click on the link below for the newsletter compliments of Jim Mendola, Webmaster:
http://rotary7090.org/pdfs/districtnews/DN0708.pdf
Kim Widdicombe, Chair of the Seniors Committee, would appreciate knowing of any past Rotarians who are living in long term care facilities or retirement homes – please let her know.
John Potts, Chair of the Membership Committee, announced that our Club achieved over 70% attendance over last Rotary Year. Please make sure that when doing make-ups, you hand in your makeup card. If you are attending Committee meetings, let Joyce know so that can be recorded. It is up to us to report, not others to seek out.
Norma Medulun, TV Auction Co-chair with Sam Walters, made a pre=kickoff announcement. Next week, we will have assigned seating – we will be sitting as Auction Teams – try to come up with a suitable Team Name. Norma and Sam
need some help for an hour or so on August 27 at the Golf Club in stuffing the
Auction Kits. Call Norma to let her know you are coming. New members are asked to attend a special auction meeting for new members at Norma’s home at 8 West Hampton Road on August 29 at 7:00 p.m.
Liz Palmieri is asking Committee Chairs to have a hard look at our website to determine if it is meeting your committee’s needs. Provide comments to Liz sometime over the next couple of weeks.
Donna Webb (Vancouver) is working on a matching grant and a friendship grant with Istanbul – interested, please contact Donna through President Tom.
Alex McKee had the right ticket. He drew the 5 Clubs so the pot continues to grow.
Collected by John Travers.
John brought along a poem titled, “Golf Ball – The Poem”
John Snowling was happy to recognize Don Shaw’s powerful singing voice (John sat beside Don today); with Don so close by no one was noticing John’s abilities.
Patricia Rooney was happy to have heard from Bekki Kugler who is home, having a little difficulty settling back in and who invited all of us to her Oktoberfest celebrations this fall.
George Doty brought along a joke that he read to the Club.
Norm Kreger was happy to be back from his leave of absence.
Dave Edwards was happy to be married 31 years.
Peter Lumsden was happy to read a piece his son had supplied titled, “Just throw it in the River”.
Fred Dyke was happy to be visiting St. Catharines.
Art Wing was happy to see Fred again.
John Nitsopoulos was happy to celebrate 30 years in business.
President Tom was happy to point out that John Crossingham, FosterZanutto and Art Weaver are all instructing courses for Brock’s Continuing Ed program.
Brock Student Health Services
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Valerie Jaeger and Melodie Shick-Porter
Don Fraser introduced Vanessa, and Melodie. He noted that he was Brocks first Medical Director (1968) when the school boasted 2,000 students. He enjoyed help from Dr. Don Lorrimer and Dr. George Fitzpatrick.
Dr. Valerie Jaeger stated that Brock’s Student Health Services is responsible for Primary care for the student body. This includes academic support, mission and research. They have a responsibility to educate the students and themselves and to perform asthma research. They fulfill a public health role on campus and provide addiction support in the areas of smoking, alcohol and gambling. They work to educate the students for a healthy lifestyle behavior.
Melodie, the Director of University Medical Services, has been at Student Services for 20 years. The student body has grown from the 2,000 students that Don tended to 17,500 today. They have Dr. Jaeger plus 15 other part time physicians, 9 nurses and administration staff of 9. In addition, they employ 40 students to help with lifestyle and health promotions. They see, on average, 140 students per day across office hours from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. The majority of their work runs along the lines of colds and flu; however, they are also faced with more complex problems including asthma, nervous disorders and depression.
Both speakers impressed how different this generation, the Millennium Generation, is from our own. The students are all ‘special’ in their own eyes; attempt to negotiate around rules; see themselves as independent while still being very connected to their parents (have ‘helicopter’ parents); have been sheltered from failure (and consequently don’t now how to deal with it at school); and are ‘pack’ animals (work and play in packs texting, emailing etc). Dr. Jaeger provided several humorous examples of each.
In the end, they know they make a difference in the lives of the students (140/day x 5 days/week x 4 weeks/month x 8 months / year = 22,400 office visits per year) and every once in a while one of them remembers this help after they graduate.
Ian Ellingham
Ian Ellingham pointed out that some of the students described might become future Rotarians. He thanked Valerie and Melodie for their presentation.
President Tom thanked our speakers and presented them with a dictionary that is being donated in their names
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Melodie Shick-Porter, Valerie Jaeger, President Tom
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50/50 draws
The cash draw was initiated 34 years ago when you purchased 2 tickets for $10! In 1988 we switched to the 50/50 concept and in 1997 we adopted the deck of cards. Earlier today Ross Macdonald, Chair of the Dinner & registration Committee noted that recently the Committee doubled the price to play and twice the number of tickets are sold each week. The draw now nets the Club $3,000 per year.
Sam Walters and Norma Medulun – The TV Auction Kick-off!
• ROTARY District Newsletter for June is now available at http://www.rotary7090.org/pdfs/districtnews/DN0706.pdf
• The 9th annual FACS Fall Gala is being held at White Oaks on Friday October 12th . For more info, or to book tickets, call 905 937-7731 ext 3304
• The annual MS Bike Tour takes place in Niagara on August 26th. There are 40 and 75km routes along the Niagara Parkway. Call 1 800 268-7582 for more details, or register at msbiketours.com
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