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The COG |
May 2008
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| A Publication of the Rotary Club of Kirkwood, Missouri |
May 2008
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Treasurers Report for March, 2008 |
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INCOME |
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Social Function |
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96.00 |
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Happy Dollars |
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22.00 |
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Lunch Fees Collected |
3230.00 |
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TOTAL INCOME |
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3348.00 |
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EXPENSES |
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Club Luncheons |
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2520.00 |
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| Charitable Donations | 1300.00 | ||
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Club Expenses |
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110.00 |
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TOTAL EXPENSES |
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3930.00 |
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Income |
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-582.00 |
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Beginning Bank Balance |
12534.78 |
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Bank Balance End of Month |
11952.78 |
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There will be no Inter-City meeting in May due to the District Conference.
| May 1 |
TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARDS – Coordinated by MIKE RASO |
| May 8 |
PAUL HARRIS AWARD PROGRAM – Coordinated by PAUL OGIER |
| May 15 |
ROTARY SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS PROGRAM – Coordinated by SANDY WASHINGTON |
| May 22 | BOB FISHER – Executive Director of the World Affairs Council |
| May 29 |
FATEMEH KASHAVARZ, Professor at Washington University in Persian Literature and author of “Jasmine and Stars, Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran” |
| June 5 |
P. T. BARNUM, as presented by an actor who will be presenting at Chautauqua |
| June 12 |
CLUB BAR-B-QUE coordinated by Chip Obert - this will be an Evening event |
| June 19 |
INSTALLATION DINNER (See article further in the Cog) |
| June 26 | CHRIS NEJELSKI, Plants of Merit Coordinator, Missouri Botanical Garden, presenting a program on “Plants of Merit” and resources available to gardeners from the Kemper Resource Center |
Mike Brown 5-22
Clyde Farris 5-24
Chip Obert 5-12
Russ Patton 5-11
Mike Raso 5-8
Jim Rose 5-15
Lynn Suydam 5-1
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Chip Obert 5 years
Lloyd Todd 8 years
Glen Clemson 17 years
Jordan 24 years
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!
No one has reported any exciting news or activities. Surely it is not possible or imaginable that the Rotarians of Kirkwood are doing nothing. Send your news to jakersting@aol.com.
Sandy Washington and the Scholarship Committee did a wonderful job and gave countless hours of their weekends to interview potential recipients for scholarship awards. Here is the list of the recipients who will be at our meeting on May 15th:
Kirkwood Rotary Fund Scholarship
(One scholarship of $8,000 ($2,000/4 years) awarded to a student on the basis of academic excellence, financial need, awards and accomplishments, and community service.)
Amanda Prasuhn – Kirkwood High School
Kirkwood Opportunity Fund Scholarship
(One scholarship of $8,000 ($2,000/4 years) awarded to a student with a cumulative grade point average of no less than 2.5 and no higher than 3.24 based on awards and accomplishments, community service and financial need as a contributing factor)
Anne Sharp – St. Joseph’s Academy
Byron Vermillion Memorial Scholarship
(One scholarship of $1,000 awarded with no special requirements attached)
Brad Schaefer – Kirkwood High School
Robert G. Reim, Sr. Memorial Scholarship
(One scholarship of $1,500 awarded to students of Kirkwood R-7 School District of St. Louis Community Collage at Meramec with no special requirements attached)
Kelsey Evans – Ursaline Academy
Nielsen Group Scholarships
I. (One scholarship of $2,000 ($1,000/2 years) awarded exclusively to a student graduate of St. Louis Community College who is seeking a baccalaureate degree)
II. (One scholarship of $5,000 awarded exclusively to a minority student pursuing a health services associate degree at St. Louis Community College with financial need a very strong contributing factor)
Leigh Ann Johnson - Kirkwood High School
Tiara Hagins – Kirkwood High School/South Technical School
Steven Massey – Kirkwood High School
Colleen Kelly – Kirkwood High School
Lou Holekamp Memorial Scholarship
(One scholarship of $10,000 (Based on program criteria and paid at the successful completion of the program) awarded to a student on the basis of academic excellence, financial need, awards and accomplishments, community service entering a Missouri State University or an accredited Technical/Trade School)
Jeffrey Pauly - Kirkwood High School
Your grandparents would have known. They might have attended a lecture or enjoyed a live entertainment or operetta under the Chautauqua tent on a warm summer evening at the turn of the 20th century.
Chautauqua began as a religious training program for Sunday School teachers in western New York, at a place named Lake Chautauqua, in 1874. Within a few years, however, the summer Chautauqua had evolved to include education and entertainment, offering speeches from famous orators and popular entertainment to the crowds that assembled at Lake Chautauqua.
With its growing popularity, the Chautauqua became a traveling event, delivering intellectual stimulation, music, and social interaction to some 400 smaller communities across the country by the year 1900. An inexpensive way to meet neighbors and hear news, the Chautauqua also brought farmers and other Midwesterners face to face with some of the great lecturers of the time, including William Jennings Bryan and Booker T. Washington. Beneath a dusty, brown canvas tent, Americans heard the political and philosophical ideas which would shape our nation in the coming years.
Following the lead of the acclaimed Great Plains Chautauqua Society, which in the 1980's revived the traveling Chautauqua programs with great success, the Heartland Chautauqua invites you to gather beneath the tent for education and entertainment. The four Chautauqua scholars will bring their characters to life in historical dramatizations each evening. Then, stepping out of character, the scholars will talk with the audience about their characters’ accomplishments, their place in history, and about how they would define a “bountiful” America.
Chautauqua is about conversations. Since its founding over 100 years ago, the Chautauqua tent has housed conversations about politics, the arts, medicine, economics, religion, humanities, nature, love, suffering, and justice.
In the same spirit of intellectual curiosity as that found at Lake Chautauqua, the 2008 Heartland Chautauqua offers face-to-face meetings with P.T. Barnum, Walt Disney, Margaret Mitchell, and Thomas Edison. The 2008 Heartland Chautauqua is titled “That’s Entertainment.”
HOW YOU CAN HELP - The Kirkwood Rotary Club has contributed $500 toward Chautauqua. Jane Evans is the Chair for the Kirkwood Library’s presentation of Chautauqua this year and she needs help with sponsorship. If you can help her please give her a call at 965-2049. It is truly a great event for the community of Kirkwood.
Here is Jane’s information:
2008 CHAUTAUQUA
“THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT”
FUNDRAISING “GIVING” OPPORTUNITIES
PROMOTER: $5000.00
“Name on the Stage” for the entire Chautauqua All Main Stage events will be billed as taking place on the (name of sponsor) stage” (e.g.“The___ Stage”). Donor recognition as “Main Stage” sponsor for all Chautauqua activities and public relations.PRODUCER: $3000.00
Underwrite “A Day of Chautauqua”
(includes Daytime Programs and Main Stage Events)
DIRECTOR:
Underwrite “An Evening of Chautauqua” $2000.00
(includes Musical Entertainment and Scholar’s Presentation)
(one performance)
CHOREOGRAPHER:
Underwrite the opening party for scholars, $1000.00
entertainers, sponsors, friends, and volunteers.
STAR:
Fund one night’s musical entertainment. $ 500.00
CHORUS:
Underwrite lighting and sound for performances. $499.00 and Under
DIRECTOR OF PROPS:
Donors of gifts-in-kind.
All donors will be recognized and acknowledged in the Program, in press releases, and in as much additional publicity as possible.
Annaul Dues will be sent by e-mail this year instead of being printed and handed out at the meeting. Dues will be $145, same as last year.
Place: Green Briar Hills Country Club
When: Thurs. June 19th
Time: 6:00 pay Bar will be open - Dinner will be over with about 8:30
Cost: - $25.00 per person -We will not be collecting money that night. Send money in earlier - labeled
induction dinner on the check. No meeting that day.
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What is Casa Materna?
Historically, many women in rural regions in Nicaragua die in childbirth because of extreme poverty and no access to medical facilities. Casa Materna was founded to reduce infant mortality and educate women about healthy pregnancies. Since its founding in 1991, the Casa staff has welcomed over 12,300 mothers and newborns. The Casa has successfully reduced maternal and infant mortality, with only one maternal death to date.
Moms spend part of their pregnancy at the Casa and learn about healthy habits. In addition, the Casa is a respite at the end of their pregnancies, where they stay before delivering their babies at the Matagalpa Regional Hospital. Without Casa, they would have no assurance they would be able to get to the hospital on time for delivery since it is distant from their homes.
Maryann Antoine of the Des Peres Rotary Club will be travelling to Nicaragua in June with her family. You can help put a smile on a baby’s face. Casa Materna needs new or gently used baby clothes. All sizes are welcomed, with 0-12 months preferred. Also need are prenatal vitamins to help moms with healthy pregnancies.
Items can be brought to the Rotary meetings or dropped off at Jean Kersting’s office at 117 N. Kirkwood Rd. (second floor) between now and May 15th. Maryann will pick them up and she and her family will deliver them to Casa Materna when they visit Nicaragua in June. If you prefer to donate money checks can be made payable to Friends of Casa Materna.
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Emily
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