Club Service
Bob Nelson – Chair, Sean Babjak, Christy Barnett, Mark Chamberlin, Kandace Day, Marv Fisher, Dan Kreis, Colin McKenney, John Oswald, Annie Pfeifer, Colby Reynolds, Jamie Sigars, DeAnn Sullivan, Joe Terick, Sharon West
Community Service
Jodi Besthorn – Chair, Jacob Beckman, Heidi Bowen, Roger Bowles, Bob Broeckelman, Rod Brown, Bob Bundy, Lara Crawford, Terry Gardner, Vern Klassen, Mike Ludlow, Tony Morrow, Zella Newberry, Bruce Pearson, Jon Roper, Allan Sands, Lori Taylor, Ann Welborn
Vocational Service
Scott Hinderliter – Chair, Dave Abbott, Randy Bowles, Stephanie Flaming, Brian Turney
International Service
Mark Hansen – Chair, June Costin, Diana Fredelake, Ed Frey, Brian Goudie, Maurice Linnens,
Michael Phipps
Foundation
Monty Allen – Chair, Bob Benson, Bob Goebel, Brent Groves, Cindy Hand, Stan Krehbiel, Phil Michel,
January 30 – JOINT AREA ROTARY MEETING hosted by the Downtown Rotary club at Botanica. Topic: “The State of Human Trafficking in Wichita”. There will be a Panel Discussion, moderated by Michelle McCormick, Director of Victim Services for the Kansas Attorney General’s Office, giving a high level overview of what Human Trafficking is, how things are in Kansas, Wichita, etc. Cost: $18 for guests. no cost to our members since we are cancelling our January 31 meeting. RESERVATIONS DUE to Diane by January 24.
January 31 – MEETING CANCELLED due to January 30th meeting
February 7 – All-club Bookshelf Deliveries at Lawrence (11:45 a.m. in the Library) & Benton Elementary schools. Box lunch provided at Lawrence in lieu of our club meeting. Reservations required for lunch count.
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AT OUR LAST MEETING in December...
PAUL HARRIS FELLOW PRESENTATION
Congratulations to Tony Morrow for receiving a PHF+3, presented by Monty Allen, Foundation Chair. Tony's contributions to The Rotary Foundation are used to further the mission of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty. Donations given to the Annual Fund are used for service projects that change lives both close to home and around the world.
UGLY CHRISTMAS SWEATER CONTEST
Thanks to all our members who contributed to the fun & festivity by wearing their ugly Christmas sweater at our December 20th club meeting!
Determined by the loudest clapping, Roger Bowles was declared the winner. Pretty sure Ed Frey (K-State fan) was clapping extra loud to confirm
Roger's KU sweater was the ugliest. : )
DILLONS REWARDS PROGRAM
Organized by Dave Abbott
Our numbers are up again this quarter!
Quarterly Report for October – December 2022
Households Participating: 17
Total Donations: $108.63
Our club participates in the Dillons Community Rewards Program. Our WEST WICHITA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION gets a small percentage of every purchase made with a Dillons card by our club members who are signed up for the program. If you aren’t already signed up with another organization, please consider linking our club’s Foundation with your Dillons card. It’s easy and it doesn’t take away from your personal Dillons rewards! If you are interested in signing up, please see Dave Abbott, project Chair or go to: https://www.dillons.com/asset/dillons_online_enroll
HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP UPDATE
Our club will offer three (instead of two) $1,000 scholarships to 2023 graduating seniors from our area high schools who plan to attend a Kansas trade school OR college/university. The applicant cannot be an immediate family relative of our club members. The application is due by March1, 2023 and is available on our club website. Spread the word!
SERVICE ABOVE SELF AWARD
Our 1997-98 Board of Officers & Directors voted to present a Service Above Self award to members who had shown outstanding service to the club and the community. The very first recipient of our club's award was Dr. David Weber on June 23, 1998.
We've had a recipient most every year since then. It is time once again to nominate a fellow member for our 2023 award. Please submit a member's name with the reasonfor your nomination to Diane either in writing or e-mailed. The deadline to submit nominations is February 21st.
Current members who are past recipients make up the selection committee and are not eligible for this award: Bob Goebel, Roger Bowles, Mike Ludlow, Michael Phipps, DeAnn Sullivan, Mark Hansen, Phil Michel, Sharon West, Brian Goudie, Jamie Wise, John Mosley, Mark Chamberlin, Tony Morrow and Terry Gardner.
DISTRICT MEAL PACKING EVENT
Thursday, February 23, in the evening, location tbd.
Please sign up if you can help.
NOTES OF APPRECIATION
RECEIVED
Recipient of our Angel Tree project...
Dear Rotary,
Words can't say enough how much we thank you for your kindness at Christmas. Just was so appreciated!
More than you know!
In His love,
Thanks!
Recipient of our High School Scholarship...
Dear Rotary Club of West Wichita,
I wanted to send you a letter regarding the scholarship you gave me at the beginning of the last semester! It's been a really tough semester. I took Physics, Calculus 2, and a programming class at Wichita State, as well as, the Airframe portion of my Airplane Mechanics license at WSU Tech. I just finished up taking my final tests for my classes last week and am happy to say that I passed everything! I have one more really hard semester to pass before I receive my Mechanics license, and hopefully after that, my workload will ease up.
Thank you all once again for being an encouragement to me while I pursue my studies!
Silja Fahnestock
Recipient of our Soup Luncheon Fundraiser...
Dear Rotary Club of (West)Wichita,
Your donation of $729.70 on Giving Tuesday is so meaningful to us and we are very grateful for your support. Thank you for making double the impact on the lives of people around the globe.
With gratitude,
Spring, Volunteer
MEETING INFORMATION
From our December 20th meeting:
ATTENDANCE
Last meeting: 41%
Membership: 62
Last year: 56%
Membership: 63
HAPPY BASKET: $3
HOLIDAY RAFFLE: Lori Taylor won $8 in our last raffle. No raffle this week due to our committee meetings.
STAR Class
When: January 24 (moved from Jan 17th)
Where: RHCC, 11:30 a.m.
Topic: "Rotary International & District 5680."
Who: All members who would like to learn more about Rotary!
ROTARY DUES
are due
RITE PROGRAM UPDATE
Organized by Dalia Hale & Shelli Kadel
(RITE=Rotary InterCountry Teacher Exchange)
We have one teacher from Panama, Dorila, that arrived over the weekend. Our teacher from Argentina and the other two from Panama are unable to come until 2024.
Dorila will present to our club at next week's meeting. Our thanks to hosts: Dalia & Steve Hale (Sunrise Rotary), Shelli & Craig Kadel, Deann Sullivan and Clay & Kate Bastian (Downtown Rotary).
