March 9, 2020 Meeting Bulletin
 
Birmingham Rotary Club
Meeting Minutes
Monday March 9, 2020
 
President John Schrot opened the meeting at 12:15pm with the Club's reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance.  Following was the reciting of the Rotary Four Way Test.
 
Regan Gilshire lead in the singing of America the Beautiful
 
John Mucha provided the week's inspiration
 
Numerous guests were introduced including Jay Zaczek and J Dallo who are Chamber members who wanted to see what Rotary is about after our sponsored Chamber of Commerce Coffee event.  Also attending were supporters of today's speaker, Bill Van Laven, Judy Miller and Julie Smith.  
 
Front desk Volunteers were recognized:
  Mark Cooper - Lunch tickets
  George Stern - Raffle
  Dave Underdown - Greeter
 
2 Minute Update - Doug Koschik promoted Library events "Friends of the Library" on 3/22 and "Early Aviation" on 3/12.  He also updated the Club on the next phase of the extensive road works program on Maple Road scheduled to start soon and continue through summer.  
 
Rotary Minute - John Westerheide recapped the Club's efforts selling Masters Raffle Tickets at the Novi Golf Show.  46 tickets in all were sold and the club had great exposure to the thousands who visited the show.  Great Rotary volunteerism was shared amongst members.  Special recognition to Bryan Frank for his Raffle Ticket leadership and to Regan Gilshire for her Masters Gala leadership.
  
Announcements included:
  Hope Warming - 3/17
  Masters Madness Gala - 3/27
  District Conference in Chatham (new members will be subsidized) - 5/8 and 5/9
 
  Guided Reader Program at Owens Elementary - Every Wednesday 9:30am to
        10:30am).  See Paul Toepp and John Mucha to sign up.  We need more
        volunteers!
 
Raffle draw saw a daily winner (Paul Toepp) but no card pull winner.  Pot Lives!
 
Sheriff Paul Toepp fined many Rotarians all for good causes!
 
Amanda Anderson was host to our meeting Speaker Alan Miller from Pontiac Kid's Engineering Club.  Alan is a passionate engineer who has established an after school program to introduce Pontiac 3rd-6th graders to the world of engineering.  The program is a STEM style educational class run by engineering volunteers.  The club meets for one hour at a time and has about 40 children actively involved.  The program has a yearly theme and Alan shared works from the children on this year's Aviation theme. 
 
President John closed the meeting with a singing of Smiles.  
 
"Connect the World"
 
Respectfully submitted - John Westerheide, Bulletin Editor