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Notes from the May 9, 2012 ORBRC Meeting submitted by Nancy Donsbach
Guests and Visitors:
Visiting Rotarians: Jo Ellen Iacovino - Sunset Club
Guests: John Auxier
Announcements:
Robertsville Middle School was having their Purple Pinkie Day for Polio Eradication on Wednesday.
District 6780 Assembly will be held on Saturday 5/12 in Cookeville. Since Pete is out of town , Austin and several other board members are going for the day.
Member's Dues Statements are going out on May 15 - Dues will remain the same for 2012-13 and they are due no later than June 15, please see Dub or Bob Weir if you do not receive your statement next week by email.
Member news: Past president, Randy Shults has resigned. Randy traveled from Walland to attend our meetings and now he is planning to join the Maryville/Alcoa club.
Our club just learned we have earned a District Simplified Grant of $2,500.00 to support our Haiti Water Project! Great News! A big thank you to Jim Palmer and his committee for all of their continued work on this project!
Mark your calendars on June 13 and August 8 our meetings will be held at Oak Ridge Utility District. They are on the Oak Ridge Turnpike, on Jefferson Circle. Thanks to Ben Andrews for volunteering ORUD. We will NOT be meeting at the church those two weeks.
We also need folks to help with clean-up starting at 5:00 a.m. June 1.
We had many Happy Members this week - we were especially excited to have a lot of graduations to celebrate! Forgive me if I missed anyone.
David Harris' daughter is graduating from Vanderbilt with a Masters degree in Divinity! Mike Coffey's daughter (and Dave's granddaughter) is graduating from Furman! Jim Michel's daughter just finished her nursing degree! Kelly Callison' son just graduated from Virginia Commonwealth as a "web guy"! Freda Hopper's daughter, Meghan just received a scholarship to MTSU!
Robin Textor introduced us to our speaker today, Ambassador Victor Ashe. Ambassador Ashe holds the distinction of being the longest serving mayor of Knoxville. He also served as Ambassador to Poland from June 2004 until October 2009. He was the 24th Ambassador who was assigned to serve in Poland. In addition, to his 16 years of service as Mayor of Knoxville, he has also served as a Tennessee State Representative, a Tennessee State Senator, and he served as a staff assistant to United States Senator, Howard Baker. He was a classmate of George W. Bush at Yale University. He graduated with a Bachelors of Arts degree in History in 1967 and graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1974 where he earned his law degree. He also served in the US Marine Corp Reserves from 1967 thru 1973. He and his wife, Joan have two children, J. Victor and Martha. They reside in Knoxville.
Ambassador Ashe shared several amusing stories of what it is like to be asked by President George W. Bush to become an ambassador and to move his family and two pre-teen children to a another country. However, now his family would say living in Europe for five years was one of the best times of their lives! We want to thank Ambassador Ashe for his interesting program.
ORBRC Rotary Foundation
Annual Programs Fund: goal for each club member to donate $100 to the Foundation each year STAR Club, Goal No. 1: 100% club members are donors STAR Club, Goal No. 2: $100 per capita Polio Eradication: goal is each club member donates $40 to the Grand Challenge Paul Harris Fellowships: goal is 100% of club members are fellows.
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Please see Austin Lance or Nancy Donsbach if you can help out with CASINO NIGHT at ORHS's Graduation Celebration on the night of Thursday, May 31. We need a few more Black Jack dealers and Texas Hold'em players to work the party from 10-4. Please let one of us know if you can help!
Matthew Reat is graduating as Valedictorian of the 2012 Class at ORHS!
Ambassador Ashe shared just what it is like to be an ambassador representing the United States and the President in a foreign land. He also gave us a brief history of Poland and its people and their culture. The United States recognized Poland in 1918 and established strong diplomatic relations and Poland remains a strong ally to the U.S. today. The opportunity to serve in Poland was a great match for Mayor Ashe, several years before he had established a sister city between Chelm in Poland and Knoxville, Tennessee!
