Lima Rotary Club celebrates Dave Runk's year as president.
With an exchange of pins, David Runk and Dave Frost took part in the traditional transfer of the Lima Rotary Club presidency at the Monday Changing of the Guard.
In the symbolic gesture, Runk, the 2015-2016 president, presented Frost with a president’s pin. Frost, Lima Rotary Club’s 2016-2017 president, presented Runk with a past president’s pin.
Frost thanked Runk for his mentoring and friendship.
“Learning and working under you, preparing with you, it’s been fantastic,” Frost said. “As president of any organization, I’ve had an ideology that you want to leave it better than when you found it. I think you sincerely illustrate that ideology, David, congratulations.”
Runk was toasted by immediate Past President Esther Baldridge and roasted by past president Michael Schoenhofer. They and Frost noted Runk’s achieving the Rotary Presidential Citation and his family’s deep Rotary roots.
Also at the club’s final meeting of the Rotary year:
The Club presented its annual awards, acknowledging outstanding Club, Community, International , Vocational and Youth service.
This year, the awards were presented to:
• Bob Ruehl and Drew Fields, Rex Perry Club Service Award
• Tracie Sanchez, John Rudolph Community Service Award
• Paul Swartz, Harrold Goodnight International Service Award
• Kathy Williams, Henry Wemmer Vocational Service Award, and
• Richard Warren, Peter Hulsken Youth Service Award.
Dick Schroeder presented a Paul Harris fellow award to Elizabeth Brown and recognized Schott Shafer as a Paul Harris fellow plus one, and Esther Baldridge as a Paul Harris fellow plus five.
Jeff Fitzgerald recognized outgoing and incoming Lima Rotary Foundation board members, outgoing foundation President Scott Shafer and incoming president Dale Lewellen.
Runk noted past presidents, including Dick Riggs, on his 90th birthday; reflected on Art Brinkman and Bill Power, who died this year; honored 40-year-plus members of the Club, including Fred Seelenbinder, who received a watch for his 40th membership year; and recognized outgoing Club board members Esther Baldridge and Harold Bischoff and incoming board members Dr. Susan Hubbell, Jeff Tracy and Paul Swartz.
Jonalee Schmidt noted this year’s Rottery raised more than $33,000 for 32 charities.
Dave Frost's father and grandfather, Greg & Frank, who are also Rotarians, attended the Changing of the Guard:
David Runk wraps up his year as President of the Lima Rotary Club.
My Fellow Rotarians,
I wanted to take a moment to once again thank you for the opportunity to serve as the president of our Lima Rotary Club. It was an amazing and enjoyable experience; one that I will always treasure and of which I am extremely proud. We accomplished much together and made a difference in the world, both locally and globally.
I particularly want to thank Esther Baldridge, Dave Frost, Tracie Sanchez, Scott Shafer, Rita Brown and Kevin Bill for their hard work and valuable counsel. I also want to thank Bob Ruehl for all of his hard work and for the occasional “kick in the backside”. I was also blessed to work with a very fine Board of Directors and Foundation Board. Finally, since I fear that I will forget someone, please know that each and every committee chair person with whom I had the honor to work on this project and that project, on various committees and other communications. I consider you all to be very dear to me and I treasure you as friends and colleagues.
I’m quite confident that President Dave Frost, President-Elect Tracie Sanchez and the entire team will do a wonderful job over the course of the next Rotary year. I’m looking forward to their leadership and assisting them in whatever way that I can.
The Board of Directors of the Lima Rotary Club has voted to increase dues.
Due to increasing costs for meals, Civic Center rental, Rotary International dues, and other expenses, the Lima Rotary Club will see its first increase in dues in more than 15 years.
2016-2017 contracts and fees for both the Veterans Memorial Civic And Convention Center ($250/week) and Milano’s Café ($9.83/per person, per meal) were discussed and unanimously approved by the Board Of Directors.
2016-2017 stipends of $400 per month for Club Secretary, Treasurer and Social Media were reviewed and approved unanimously by the Board Of Directors.
In order to maintain a balanced budget, the Board Of Directors unanimously approved the following increase in dues, effective July 1, 2016:
Individual Members: $25/Quarter
Corporate Members: $50/Quarter
In addition, visitors meals will also be increasing to $15/meeting, with the understanding that members bringing prospective members are eligible to receive credit for the visitor's lunch if and when the visitor joins the club.
Over the last 15 plus years, the club has experienced significant increases in dues from Rotary International and District 6600, along with costs pertaining to food service. Unfortunately, the club can no longer absorb these costs without increasing dues.
Kevin Bill of Rea & Associates will continue to serve as the Lima Rotary Club Treasurer. Amy Ricker will take over the responsibilities currently being performed by Joy Gentry at Rea & Associates. Amy’s duties will include, but are not limited to: emailing/mailing quarterly statements & invoices, accounts receivable, accounts payable, collection and transfer of funds to the Lima Rotary Foundation, as well as fielding general billing questions from the membership.
A balanced budget for the Rotary Year 2016-2017 was presented and unanimously approved by the board of directors.
Save The Date! District Governor Do Nguyen will be visiting the Lima Rotary Club on Monday, July 18th. Please plan to attend and learn more about how we as Rotarians will celebrate the Centennial Year of the Rotary Foundation, as well as other exciting news going on in District 6600.
Erin Hardesty’s birth mother search offers life lessons.
It wasn’t until Erin Hardesty was pregnant with her first child that she began to give real through to finding her birth parents. The medical history she didn’t have nagged at her, and so she started looking.
She found that history, and so much more, that she is now co-authoring a novel based on her life story. She also offers that history as life lesson and motivational speech, and shared much of that with Lima Rotary Club Monday.
Hardesty was born in Virginia, but her adoptive parents brought her home to Lima three days after her birth. Decades later she would come to learn that her birth mother also lived in Lima, just miles from where she grew up, and had several connections to her over the course of her life.
Hardesty and Mike Blass are co-authoring a novel and also give a presentation based on her story, “Three Dimensions of Personal Power,” in which she asks questions such as “Are you living by design, or default?”
Her birth mother’s decision to have a baby and put her up for adoption, had, at last count, affected the lives of some 400 people, Hardesty said.
“What have I learned?” she asked the crowd. “There is incredible power in choices and all choices have consequences.”
You can learn more about the book and her story at www.NoLittleChoices.com.
Also at Rotary Monday:
We celebrated anniversaries, including Steve Kayatin’s 27 years of Lima Rotary membership.
President Elect Dave Frost announced a dues increase of $25, to cover increasing costs associated with Rotary International and district dues, and weekly meals.
President David Runk reminded the club about:
• Changing of the Guard, which will happen June 27 at City Club
• Lima Locos tickets are available for a $2 donation to the Lima Rotary Foundation
• the Lima Rotary Foundation Golf Outing is rescheduled for July 20
• the next Lima Rotary Club social meeting is June 28 at The Met.
The June Social Meeting at the MET was co-sponsored by our new President Dave Frost and Past President David Runk. David Runk passed out beautiful pens from CSS Publishing and Dave Frost for Fidelity Builders Supply, Inc. gave away 3 bricks to the winner of his “Build A Stronger Mind” brick trivia game. Annette Swisher, Ty Lotz, and Mike Schoenhofer will all have a brick engraved with the inscription of their choice to be placed along with the other donors bricks at the “Rotary Field of Dreams at UNOH” Abilities Baseball diamond.
Next Social Meeting at the MET will be July 26th and the appetizers are sponsored by Tim Sielschott for Sielschott Financial Services. Please join us for delicious appetizers along with engaging fellowship! You are responsible for your own beverage bill and you are encouraged to bring a guest! This counts as a Rotary Meeting!
The Rex Perry Memorial Golf Outing has been rescheduled to July 20.
Due to the rain yesterday, the Lima Rotary Rex Perry Memorial Golf Outing has been rescheduled for July 20th. it will once again be held at Hidden Creek northeast of Lima. If you wanted to participate before but were unable, you now have the opportunity to schedule a day of golf and fellowship. Please contact Matt Otto (motto@superiorfcu.com) to register of for more information. Singles and foursomes are welcome. Of course, funds raised for the event are dedicated to the Lima Rotary Scholarship Fund for Non-Traditional Students.
If you already are registered (and have paid for Skins, Mulligans, etc.), there's no need to do anything else. Hold on to your 50/50 tickets!
Thank you for your support of this important Lima Rotary program!
David Runk
Club President 2015-16
​Rotary Club of Lima
Please save the date, October 28, 2016, in Toledo, for the 2nd Annual Rotary Lake Erie Watershed Conference. See the attached save the date card. This second Conference is hosted by the Rotary Club of Toledo and District 6600 and promises to be another great event. Hope to see you there.
The purpose of this fellowship is to foster and encourage fellowship between and among Rotarians of all nations who have a love for beer and
through this fellowship support international projects of the Rotary Foundation.
This year's World Water Summit <http://www.wasrag.org/wws8-seoul-korea> on May 27 in Seoul highlighted the progress being made:
* Over the last 25 years, more than 2.5 billion people gained access to improved drinking water, and 2 billion who didn't have adequate sanitation now do.
* Child deaths from water-related diseases dropped from 1.5 million to just over 600,000.
* The UN Millennium Development Goals' target for clean drinking water was met five years ahead of schedule. But for the 1.8 billion people whose drinking water remains contaminated and the 2.4 billion without access to proper sanitation, progress is still too slow, said Vanessa Tobin, director of water and sanitation for Catholic
Relief Services and one of the event's main speakers.
<http://www.crs.org/our-work-overseas/program-areas/water-and-sanitation>
