"The N O O N E R"
Official Publication of The Centerville Noon Optimist Club
August 19, 2008
Volume 39 Number 44
www.centervillenoonoptimist.com
"Celebrating 40 Great Years of Optimism
"By Providing Hope and Positive Vision, Optimists bring out the best in Kids"
Optimist Mission Statement
Call to Order: Prez. Tom called the meeting to order with a few quick announcements about the Summer Social, tonight's Board Meeting and the passing out of the financials for the board meeting.
Invocation: Phather Phil's opening prayer told us we have freedom to decide how to invest our time but prayed we would wisely seek the services of our supreme consultant, God to help us with that decision because life is like a coin. We can spend it any way we choose, but we can only spend it once.
Attendance: We were set for 120 today. My count came out to 78 which included our 13 guests.
Guests: Sandy Williams from Sam's Club returned as the guest of Mike Bevis who also had Coleman Szekely from Robert Half Technology join him.
Judy DeMarco brought friend Sue Brubaker.
From the Washington Township Fire Department came Chief Bill Gaul and Deputy Chief Jim Neidhead who came at the invitation of Jesse Lightle.
Karen Marwood had her newly licensed banker associate, Mark Bryant join her and said he would be attending meetings for her the next several weeks while she is in Washington State.
It's a family affair………….
Dave Kay was joined by his three daughters: Diana who will be returning to Michigan State this weekend to begin her sophomore year, Caren who turned 16 just yesterday and Sydney who was sporting a spiffy new back-to-school hairdo.
Jamie Rowe, Centerville High School Jazz Band member accompanied dad, Jim.
Jack Langer came with Scott, his pop.
Grandkids too…………………
Taylor Seitner came with Grandma Linda Fisher.
Bob Duffy brought grandson Alex (OH IO—thank you!)
By the way, your faithful reporter conducted a poll of the above youngsters about how excited they were about going back to school. My results yielded responses that ran the gamut of "great, I get my bed back (Diana Kay) to "yeah, right!" snarled by Jamie Rowe. Jack Langer refused to dignify my question with a response and Caren Kay just shook her head. Taylor Seitner was pretty happy though. She doesn't start back until next week.
Sixteen Candles: Tom Beery honored new 16-year-old Caren Kay with a significantly edited version of his golden oldie. If only he could carry a tune. Tom needs to be here for an offering from the CNO Chorus as led by either Bob Duffy or Charlie Tapp.
Readings:
3rd reading for Julie Walling was done by sponsor Mike Bevis.
Laurie Poeppelman gave the third reading for friend Rosemary D'Aloia.
We had a third reading for Teresa Phillips by Prez. Tom substituting ineptly for Cheryl Juliano.
Inductions: None today
Birthdays: For the week beginning August 19:
Tomorrow, the 20th is the birth date of Susan Thomsen.
Chief Steve Walker will celebrate on the 21st.
Committee Reports
Remember our Adult Summer Social will be held on Saturday, August 30th. Again this year it will be held at the home of Terri and Mike Bevis at 2469 Sugar Ridge Lane in Centerville. The party begins at 5:00 PM. Scott Langer will be our deejay. Note a small change. Bring a hearty appetizer and $10.
Avenue of Flags new incentive. Outback Steakhouse gave the club two $25 gift certificates and one each will go to the lucky volunteer by drawing on each of the two remaining flag delivery/pickup dates which are Labor Day and Veterans Day.
Don't forget to provide Ann Hayes any changes you need to be shown in our Membership Handbook and Directory. You may email corrections to Ann at athayes9@woh.rr.com.
Thursday, September 18th our club and several other clubs will have an evening social hour for residents in our communities who have an interest in learning more about the Optimist Club and about our local clubs.
Greg Crabtree is looking for a few good volunteers to man the concession stand for the Labor Day Weekend Soccer Tournament Saturday, August 30 and Sunday the 31st. T. J.'s Place of Hope is running the stand and the proceeds will benefit this cause.
Judy DeMarco said the recognition lunch for the Golf Outing sponsors will be Tuesday September 16th.
TOP Soccer (The Outreach Program) the special program for special- needs kids begins again tomorrow night. The program runs for about six weeks and is held on Wednesday nights from 6:30-7:30 and Sunday afternoons from 4:00-5:00. Man I don't know anything about soccer, you say. All you really need to know is that the ball is round. If you know the difference between a corner kick and a penalty kick, or a free kick you are over qualified.
Volunteers are needed to help some wonderful kids have fun. Consider working with us and you will be rewarded with some warm feelings from working with the kids. Contact Don Wildenhaus at d.wildenhaus@sbcglobal.net.
Sergeants at Arms: Joe Madden and Mark Mitrovich.
Sgt. Joe led off with a "gimmie." Judy already had her dollar out, so Joe took it.
Then he busted the table where Judy was sitting for being an all women's' table. Not true protested Mike Bevis. Mike was then cited for trying to join the sorority.
Bob Duffy was administered the brainwashing of a grandson fine for OH IO.
Jesse Lightle simply will not say anything about Optimism in her newspaper article about the Township, nor will she wear her pin for the article photograph. Not only that but she took the Handicapped Only parking space Southminster last week.
Jane Fieher was offered the opportunity to choose from a menu of offenses: she was late, lost her badge and then her phone went off. Pretty generous, just 33⅓ ¢ per offense.
Joan Cordonnier was fined because Joe couldn't remember her name, that and that she was in training to run a marathon.
Where the heck are the "Ts" asked Melinda Tilley looking for her name badge? Between the "S" and the "U." said our always helpful Sergeants at Arms? "What kind of stupid filing system is that?" asked Melinda. That'll be a Washington, please.
Dave Kay and Mike Bevis apparently were not asked to tithe by Sgt. Joe for winning car wash tickets at Beef's last night at the fundraiser for T. J.'s Place of Hope. I saw no dollars hit the basket.
I did see Wayne Christie get gigged for driving his gas guzzler to last week's meeting. Joe thought he should have walked.
The "Wrong Way Corrigan" fines of the week were assessed against Bill Williams and Karen Young who each went to the wrong place for last week's noon meeting.
Sgt. Mark then did the mop up with late fines assessed to Karen Young, Tom Cunningham and Dr. Allen Moore.
Happy Bucks: I'm thinking we are going to have to adopt new rules for happy bucks maybe up the ante or making those giving a happy buck write it out and give the written happy to the bulleting editor. If I missed any, I apologize but when six people at the same table give these, it is almost impossible to capture the details and this weekly is nothing if not accurate, clear and concise. Anyway here is my best guess:
Don Wildenhaus ponied up a buck because TOP Soccer is resuming
tomorrow evening beginning at 6:30. Again, if you want to enjoy working with our special needs kids, come out to Oak Grove Park and join in the fun.
CeAnn Chalker's son, Matthew, proposed to his fiancé last weekend and she said yes. CeAnn is also excited about getting to baby sit her two grandkids for a complete week.
Phather Phil enjoyed being at his high school reunion. Make that his 66th!!! High School reunion.
Here is where that table ganged up on me, so here is what I either heard are am willing to make up:
Julie Walling's daughter is going away to college—I'm not sure if the celebration is the "going away" part or the "to college" part.
Pat Behn celebrated with a crisp new dollar the fifth year anniversary of being a member of the Centerville Noon Optimist Club. She was inducted on August 5th 2003, sponsored by President-elect Nancy Lehren.
Vida McDowell, herself quite a tennis player, is proud of her daughter who is playing in a big tournament.
Patti Pierce's brother was inducted posthumously into the Oakwood High School Tennis Hall of Fame. Her brother's name was Buzz Pierce.
Dave Kay added a dollar to the pot to celebrate his annual Back to School happiness.
Bill Williams borrowed a buck from bride of twenty-five years, Candace to celebrate their anniversary.
How do you get to Carnegie Hall, Tom Beery? Go with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus. Now they are returning to the Big Apple to sing at another venue, The Met(?)
Gail Aiken enjoyed spending time in the above big city with Gary and daughters and she managed to get back from Manhattan with enough money to pop in a celebration buck.
Gary explained how they financed the trip. Seems he, Karl Frydryk, Joe Madden, Terry Blair and Ira Thomsen own a 2-year-old thoroughbred and just sold 80% of that ownership to a syndicate, the same one that owned Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown
Program: Our speaker today was Mike Parks the President of the Dayton Foundation. Myron Rheaume introduced him.
Mr. Parks began by describing several kinds of foundations. The Mathilde Foundation as an example is a family foundation made up of members of that family raises money or does activities for causes that the family favors.
There are Corporate Foundations, for example the NCR Foundation. In this case members of the business or corporation raise money or do activities for causes that the corporation favors.
The Dayton Foundation then is a bundle of folks doing good for many areas of interest. There are at present 2800 individuals, families and organizations in the Dayton Foundation and last year they raised $41 Million dollars. This is approximately triple the amount of money that was raised by United Way.
There are 700 foundations around the nation. The Dayton areas would rank about 60th in the nation in size. In the foundation area, the Dayton area ranks about 20th.
One way of expressing the mission of the Dayton Foundation, is that the Foundation "helps you help others." Who is in the foundation? With some exceptions, the membership of the foundation resembles the membership of our club. Everyday people doing everyday things and helping others. People working together to help others.
Thank Mike Parks for his informative and enjoyable presentation.
Next Week: Walt Hoy who is the Project Chairman for the Wright B Flyer.
50/50 Drawing: Today's lucky winner was Mike Bevis.
Before we stood and recited the creed, Joe Madden updated us on where the club stood toward the goal of reaching a membership of 204.
With the three we have in readings, we are just three short of that goal with about six weeks to go.
I am Ken Peacock and I approve this message.