Next Meeting Time & Place:  September 13 at RSCC.  Program will be Henry Parker talking about her favorite subject, Mentoring  

Song: Dave Tontonoz lead us in a rousing song about John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

Pledge:  President Marion Keenan                             Prayer:  Kathleen McLain

Head Table:  District Governor Judy Friis; her partner, Michael Carmichael and Area District Governor Don Hackett

Guests:  April Clyde and Will Dyer and two visiting Rotarians:  Bob Widdowson from Wicomico and Lombuso Khoza from a club in Pullman, WA. A native of Swaziland, Lombuso has moved here as an Assistant Professor of Fashion Merchandising at UMES

Announcements:  Henry Vinyard acknowledged September birthdays with Allen Brown winning the cake. Sign ups with Pete Reddish are due for the Golf Tournament on September 20. Mark Glushakow thanked everyone for having sold 775 raffle tickets and noted that several of us were requesting even more to sell. SELL! SELL! SELL! DG Judy drew the ticket for the winner of the German beer stein, Steve Capelli. Mark also requested help at one of the two Pepsi booths at the Riverfest on September 8.

Main Program:  DG Judy, a member of the Centreville Club, had met with the Officers and Board prior to the meeting to review our Club’s plans for 2007-2008. She expressed great enthusiasm for those plans. She confirmed that a new club is to start on September 12 in Ocean Pines. They will meet at 7:00 am at the Woodlands. The District Conference will be held at the Doubletree Hotel in Annapolis from April 25-27, 2008. She also announced that the Rotary Foundation Dinner will be held November 8, 2007 at the Dover Air Force Base Museum. Judy encouraged us to participate in the Group Study Exchange, which this year is with a District in Belgium.

Her talk was very interactive with the Club. Building on the Rotary theme of Rotary Shares, she said that Rotary receives thanks from all over the world for the work of individual Rotarians and for the organized efforts of Rotary Clubs. Polio Plus and Ambassadorial Scholarships were two programs she detailed as having an impact on the world.  She asked in a friendly way what our Club had accomplished recently and received from our members a long list of recent accomplishments. In various languages she thanked the members of our Club for their efforts in such events as Meals on Wheels, bike rides, backpacks, Camp Fairlee Manor, scholarships, dictionaries and mentoring.

50/50 Winners:  April Clyde and Bob Widdowson, $18.00

       Enjoy Rotary!