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April 15, 2010 Happenings & Announcements
Assistant Governor Walter Wollnik and our Ten Grand Raffle impresario Jim Bertucci selected Mary Kay Chisholm the winner of this week's $5 raffle ticket drawing.
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Bob Krzysik Classification Talk
Born in Chicago, living in Schiller Park, Glenview, Northbrook and now Arlington, he went to Glenbrook North High School, spent some time at Kansas University, and returned home to help the family home remodeling business. He learned the importance of hard work and honesty there. Now a banker, he enjoys working with people and helping them.
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Installation of Will Beiersdorf
Please welcome our newest member Will Beiersdorf, founder, with his wife, of Salute, Inc., a not-for-profit organization based in Arlington Heights.
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Trinity, a Special Service Dog
Mary Piemonte talked about how Trinity, a service dog for her daughter Regina helps with Regina's special needs.
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Exchange Student Ivan Soberon
Today former 2004-2005 inbound exchange student Ivan Soberon gave a slide show and brought us up to date on what he has been doing since returning home.
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Time for Jeopardy!
Brought to us by Paula Moore and Janet Moravec from the Arlington Heights Memorial Library with fun and intersting questions on local topics including Rotary, Arlington History, TV Songs, and Library Facts.
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2009 Holiday Party
‘Twas some nights before Christmas and all through the Meridian, not a “Bah!” nor a “Humbug!” was heard. Instead, the Rotary Holiday Party rang with meaningful and enjoyable music and good cheer.
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The Arlington Heigths Rotary Club's Santa Fun Run, 2009
Bill Kmeicik, promoter of the Santa Run, was pleased with the success this year. “I was in awe seeing so many people turn out.” Last year was the club’s first “run”: In it, around 600 participated, and this year about 900 did.
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The Peace Corps
Harper College Associate Professor and Co-chair of the Department of English, Richard Johnson, told us about the Peace Corps and his experiences as a Corps volunteer in West Africa.
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District 6440 Governor Bill Ferreira
The speaker at our November 19th lunch meeting was our District 6440 Governor Bill Ferreira.
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Windy City Charitable Games
Dan Tumbarello, President of Windy City Charitable Games, talked to our Club about his new company that manages licensed gaming events for qualified charitable organizations and unlicensed “Casino Events” for any organization.
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Selling Young People On Success
Dr. Mark Kaushal spoke at our lunch meeting regarding Selling Young People On Success (“SYPOS”), which is an organization whose mission is to help young people to be successful in school and in life.
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Videos from Rotary International
Tim Corrigan showed two videos from the Rotary International Website. One was about Rotary’s change to admitting women as members and the other was a biography of RI President John Kenny.
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Drive Performance
Today our speaker was Eric Maleski, one of the instructors at Drive Performance in Wheeling, Illinois. He told us about the training of Chicago Cubs, and other professional and amateur baseball players to hit baseballs.
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Rotary Club Classification Information
Sue Duchek and Jim Bertucci enlightened all of us regarding the history and purpose of the Rotary classification system, and their plans to review our club’s classification list.
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Last Hand - a Book by Tom Price
Arlington resident Tom Price told of his book, Last Hand, A Suburban Memoir of Cards and the Cold War Era. As he expressed it, it’s a tale of the life and death of an American Cold War family, describing it as a journey back to a bygone era before laptops, digital TV, and cell phones.
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StandUp - Men Moving from Standing By to Standing Up
Today we heard from Art Moore a volunteer for the recently launched initiative StandUp by the Illinois Center for Violence Prevention. StandUp is a group of men and women working together to end men's violence against women.
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Enough is Enough
Al Lencioni of ASA Sales Systems spoke at out lunch meeting about how adding feature after feature to existing products in order to differentiate each product often creates a device that is so complicated that it looses its functionality to the everyday consumer.
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Feed My Starving Children
Sam Moser presented the Club with information regarding the wonderful efforts of the Feed My Starving Children organization as they help address starvation in the world.
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June 3Jon Ridler"Economic Recovery?" Arlington Heights Chamber of Commerce Executive Director and fellow Rotarian, Jon Ridler, reports on the economic impact on businesses in the community and prospects for moving forward. Some businesses doing well, others holding their own and new business coming into the Village.
June 10No Meeting - Installation DinnerJune 17Millie Palmer & Will BeiersdorfMillie Palmer and Will Beiersdorf will deliver their respective Classification Presentations.
June 24Rotary's 5th Avenue of Service - New Generations
June 8Board of Directors MeetingMeeting is held at the Wittenberg Commons, Luther Village.
June 112010 Club Officer Installation DinnerJoin us for the 2010/2011 Arlington Heights Rotary Installation and Celebration Dinner on Friday, June 11th. The evening will begin with a reception hour and open bar followed by dinner. Following dinner will be the Installation and Recognition program and the evening will conclude with entertainment.
June 21Immunization Clinic June, 2010Club members help Village nurses with this bi-monthly clinic.