Rotary Club 13
 

Thursday's Meeting

February 4, 2010

  

CPR-AED Refresher Course

In This Issue

Dr. George Harris - Speaker

Comfort Station - The 2009 $197 Challenge

Blood Drive

Centennial Committee takes the show on the road

Call for Memories

Bowling News

Last Thursday's Meeting
 

COMMITTEE MEETINGS

February 4:

New Member Orientation
10:30 - Lido Room

Membership C&Q
11:15 - Burgundy Room

Gleaning Farmer's Fields
11:00 - Trianon E
 











 



  
Muehlebach Hotel 12 Noon Trianon Room

"The Cost of Doing Nothing: Developing a Community Response to Homelessness"

Dr. George Harris, Psychologist

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Dr. Harris will describe the work that lies ahead for Kansas City’s new task force committed to ending homelessness.  

Late in 2007, KC’s Police Chief sought to improve services for and to change the existing ineffective role of the police with homeless people. Over the next two years representatives from the social service, business, legal, judicial, law enforcement and philanthropic communities joined together to tackle the challenge.  This resulted in a June 2009 conference of government leaders, professionals and concerned citizens that outlined the need for a task force to end homelessness. The new KC Homelessness task force began its work on January 4, 2010.

A psychologist in private practice Dr. George Harris provides psychological evaluations for many area police and fire departments, including the Kansas City Missouri Police Department. He was formerly an associate professor of criminal justice at Washburn University. Dr. Harris is the author of numerous articles and books, including Broken Ears, Wounded Hearts, awarded as best book of 1984 by President Reagan's Commission on the Employment of the Handicapped. He served on the reader adviser panel for the Kansas City Star and regularly contributes columns for the paper's web site.       

Invocator-
Glenn Bradford
 Welcomer-
Christy  Chester
 Centennial Minute -
David McCaughey

GREETERS:   New members and their sponsors will  serve as
       our greeters this week.

CPR/AED DUTY SCHEDULE

     February 4, 2010
1. Leader - Jan Armstrong
2. Compress - Tom Terry
3. Defib - Doug Nelson
UPCOMING SPEAKERS & EVENTS:
February 11 - Spouses' Day - Bill Tammeus, Kansas City Star columnist,
will speak on "Harry and Bess: An Oval Office Love Story
You Can Tell Your Grandkids Without Blushing?"
February 18 - Steve Kraske, Kansas City Star columnist
February 25- Brad Moore, president, Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions
   

Comfort Station - The 2009 - Now $197 Challenge

 

This summer our campers enjoyed our new comfort station, including state of the art showers, bathroom facilities and three washers and dryers.  The new facility should last us a half-century.  The total cost was $503K.  We have raised $246K.  The Hall Family Foundation has offered a $40K Topping Grant once we reach an additional $217K.  We recently received an additional Topping Grant of $20K from the Oppenstein Foundation, reducing the challenge goal to $197K.  To date, we have received $79,776.97, leaving us just $117,223.03 to go.  We are 76% of the way there.

You know, the bricks and mortar of our comfort station in themselves don't pull at the heartstrings but what about our camp users? This past summer in our 85th Summer Session we offered a camp experience to the following groups:
Midwest Brachial Plexus Network (Children injured at birth)
ARC of Clay & Platte Counties (Adults functioning as 8-12 years old)
Joshua Center (Children with Tourette's Syndrome)
Joint Adventures (Children with arthritis)
American Indian Center (Children living at/or below poverty level)
Bridge Home for Children (Children who are wards of the court)
Boy Scouts (Physically & mentally handicapped)
Girl Scouts (Physically & mentally handicapped)
Kansas City Youth Experience (Team building for inner-city youth)
So many special children were delighted with our new comfort station. The kids can't wait to come again next year. If you could just see the smiles on their faces when they are at our camp you would certainly help out! Give what you can but if you donate $1,000 you can become a K.C. Rotary Club Foundation Fellow. We will even make arrangements with a payment plan. Call the Rotary office at 816/842-2322 and speak with Janet about this today!

Mark your calendars-March 4 Centennial Blood Drive!

Get ready to roll up your sleeves and give the gift of life.  This year we will be in competition with the St. Louis Rotary Club in donating blood.
On Thursday, March 4, in Yardbird A & B at the Marriott Hotel, we will hold our blood drive.  Call the Rotary office and set a time from 10:0 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. that is good for you.  Remember the life you save could one day  be your own.
Rotary Assistance in Haiti

Many Rotarians have inquired about contributions to assist Haiti.  Please know that a Donor Advised Fund has been established that is accepting contributions.  Complete information is available at "http://www.rotary.org/haiti">www.rotary.org/haiti.  Information is also available on the home page, www.rotary.org.  For more information, Annie Palubicki (annie.palubicki@rotary.org) will be happy to answer additional questions that you might have on the fund. 
The Centennial Committee is taking the show on the road!

The Centennial Committee has produced a power point slide show titled "Rotary Service in Kansas City … One Club at a Time" that recognizes 100 years of Rotary in Kansas City. 

The Committee has contacted all 37 of the area clubs that are the "offspring" of Club 13 and asked to have program time to present the slide show.  We are off to a great start and are currently booking dates through April, with the goal of reaching as many clubs as possible before the May luncheon at Union Station.   

Committee members are trained and ready to present the show but want to extend an invitation to any Club 13 member that would like to go along and be a support for the speaker as well as indicate our Club’s commitment to the Centennial activities.  Look for dates and locations in the Buzz Saw and let Evie Craig know at ecraig@restartinc.org or 913.706.1469  if you are interested in signing up. 

 

The first speaking date is Tuesday, Feb. 2 at the Lee’s Summit Downtown Rotary Club, 4:30 p.m. at Maxwell’s Restaurant at 3rd and Douglas.  Our Centennial Committee members will present the program and welcome Club 13 colleagues!

Rotary Club 11, St. Louis Centennial Gala
Save the date -- March 12, 2010
RI President John Kenny, guest of honor

Dinner Dance Gala Celebration
Millennium Hotel, 200 S. 4th St., St. Louis, Mo. 63102
For information contact Club11@rotarystl.org or 314-894-1759
$100 per person
Checks payable to: Rotary Club Welfare Fund, 405 Washington Ave., St. Louis, MO 63102
Special room rate of $99 for overnight guests.
To reserve a room at the Millennium call 314-241-9500.
Be sure to tell them Group Code: 1003ROTARY to get the special rate 

Call for Memories

The momentum for Club 13's centennial is heating up. But it won't be complete without the personal memories of our members.
     To those of you who have been members for awhile (we'll leave that loosely defined), reach back into your memory banks for anecdotes, reflections, observations…the kind of things that never make it into the official record, yet reflect the heart, compassion – and humor – of Club 13.
     We plan to set aside a section of the centennial book for these memories that are an important part of our club's history.
     So start reminiscing! Send your contributions and any questions to Jane Lee at jane@janeleecomm.com
 

BOWLING NEWS:  by Dick Retrum

There were a few four letter words uttered on the lanes today.  Foul, Help, Gosh, Ouch!, Darn, Heck, Crud, Oh-No and Over just to mention a few.  Mostly related to the number of stubborn ten pins and numerous splits.  A few records might have been broken in the number of ten pins left standing.  It was just one of those days...

It was so bad, the first-half first-place team, the Off-N-On's, didn't have a strike for 32 frames.  The teams anchorman, Norm Waters didn't have a strike for his entire first game.  He suggested that Platetechtonics was to blame for this unusual situation. When asked if the shifting of the earth's crust would have any impact on his ability to roll a strike, he said, "that is my story and I'm sticking to it
Karl Roscoe reported that the Past Prez's had nine splits in a row.  They claim to have started the four letter word ranting that spread across all the lanes.  Leave it to our elder statesman to set the example for others to follow.   Karl indicated that next week he is wearing golf shoes to bowl in to improve his game.  The media has been alerted.
However, there was a brief light at the end of the tunnel for Bill Buckner on the Split Ends team.  He rolled a 202, the only high game of the day.  Nice game Bill.    

    

Last Thursday - January 14, 2010

by Lee Brumitt

 

President Matt took the podium to welcome a "lively group" of members and numerous guests on the much publicized Guest Day. Charlie Huffman, in particularly good voice, sang the now familiar "Welcome to Rotary" and led the throng in "God Bless America." John Jespersen called upon the proclamations of Martin Luther King in his invocation.  Steve McCue then assumed the unenviable job of introducing around 40 guests and, in the process, having to decipher the well-meaning but not always legible handwriting of his fellow Rotarians. President Matt debuted the Centennial Minute and related two stories from the early days of Club 13 including the 1912 vindication of Rotary before the Kansas City Commercial Club and the gifts showered upon the lady friends or spouses of Rotarians at the 1916 Ladies Night Dinner including, among other useful items, a putty knife! Curt Watkins then introduced our speaker, Dan Hesse, former Army Brat, Ivy League scholar, and current CEO of Sprint.
       Hesse, a man of elevated stature, both in the communications industry and at the podium, started by noting Sprint's long history of giving in the metro area and pledged to remain a generous member of the community. With an annual outlay of $750 million in Sprint salaries alone, not to mention the contributions to its vendors, Sprint continues to be a significant and indispensable community asset and economic engine. While discretely acknowledging the local angst caused by disappearing jobs, Hesse noted that the media coverage of Sprint gets better as one gets away from KC. 
       As CEO, Hesse has challenged Sprint to excel in three areas:  consumer satisfaction, brand identity, and cash generation. In fact, Sprint has enjoyed resurgence in customer satisfaction since Hesse took the helm two years ago. Sprint was just named "No. 1" in quality in the voice and wireless voice and data industries by the Yankee Group, a respected evaluator. Hesse, a rock-star in the communications industry, has been asked to serve as the keynote speaker for this week's annual, all-industry Customer Satisfaction Conference held by J.D. Power. He will address "how Sprint has made so much progress, so quickly." While consistently winning "brown bag" tests in which brand names are unknown, branding is a significant market maker in the communications industry. While Sprint does not have the financial clout of AT&T and Verizon, Nielsen has given Sprint's "brand recall" high marks. Lastly, Sprint generated cash flow exceeding $2 billion in the first 3 quarters of 2009 and used the cash to make a sizeable investment in Clearwater, Sprint's 4G endeavor.
       While Sprint's progress is impressive, the assembly became spell-bound considering the possibilities which the industry holds when Hesse remarked that there are more cell phones in use than PCs, TVs, and cars combined! There are more cell phones with cameras in use today than cameras of any kind…in the history of cameras!! Hesse continued capturing imaginations when he embarked on discussion of the advent of 4G wireless networks, already in place in 27 markets and coming soon to KC, as well as the wireless innovations which are in store for, among others, the consumer, retail, and medical fields. Get ready for a world without cables and cords, where your doctor conducts examinations remotely, where you read your paper through an electronic device, and where consumer goods and medical devices contain wireless chips. The possibilities are endless, and Hesse, a visionary, hopes to put Sprint on the forefront of developing these new and endless technologies. It was a good luncheon with great camaraderie, humor, and wonderment for what the future holds.

 
 

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