Johann, our Exchange Student from Germany, gave a neat presentation about his Exchange Year here in Texas with us. What a wonderful young man he is! We have been so fortunate to have him with us this year. He and PDG Doris presented each of his host Moms with flowers. It was a perfect Rotary morning!
LAKE CONROE ROTARY CLUB MEETING NOTES
May 25, 2017
VISITING ROTARIANS AND GUEST
Johan LCRC Exchange student
Marci Perdu and family -host family
Rhonda Darby and son -host family
Katie Wileyand daughters -family of Randall
CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS
June 8thBoard meeting 1:30pm place TBD all new and existing Board members should attend. Open to all if you would like to know what’s going on!
June 8th meeting at Memory Park for the morning meeting
June 29th Installation Banquet for Victoria no morning meeting
Linda Ricketts Literacy Scholarship Committee has selected a winner.
MY ROTARY –No Update
FAMILY OF ROTARY –No Update
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Jan Ricketts-Service-Planning on next year!
Shannon Salsbury-Membership-Two new member applications.
Daniella Mead-Administration/Programs-Programs updated until June!
Deanna Voitle-Public Image-No Update
Chef Rick -New Generations-Call Rick before you go to the Rotary Storage unit have over 10,000 rolls and saving. Putting flags out today for Memorial Day! Almost 100% of the flags have been dedicated to date.
Mike Berger-Polio Chair-No new cases this week! Five weeks in a row for no new cases. Worldwide five cases total worldwide. Charlie won the raffle for the Rotary watch which he gifted to Yohan!
Gary Milleson-Foundation-100 year celebration of the foundation this year at the conference!
Gary Milleson -Memory Park-June 8th is Park day. The morning meeting will be held in the park for tours and information on upcoming projects.
Randall Wiley/Doris Lockey-Exchange- The first host family has been selected for next year’s student.
GOOD NEWS
Doris announced JC graduated from Sam this week! She is moved to San Antonio and will be starting the management program with MACY’s on Tuesday.
Craig announced his daughter Molly just got a big promotion with a great salary increase.
Lorrie announced she is going to visit her daughter!
Alfred announced thank you for those that attended scholar athlete banquet. This year $62,000 in in scholarships were awarded. A big thank you to Peggy and those that helped!
Kris announced that thanks to Alfred we still have the Scholar Athlete Banquet. Most of you may not know that we almost didn’t do it anymore, because it was such an undertaking for our club, but thanks to Alfred all five clubs are participating and it has turned out great each year!
Warren announced that his back is good to go and will be paying golf next week!
David announced the Twins have graduated from college!
Christina announced that Conroe was named #1 fastest growing city in the US!
GUEST SPEAKER
Johan shared with the club his year experience in America. On August 13, 2016, his journey began with the Darby family that picked him up from the airport. He reflected that it was one of his happiest days to have such a large group welcome him! He had a great time experiencing Texas BB&Q, fishing and boating, deep sea fishing, worked a haunted house, attended the renaissance festival (was wired), and Beaver Nuggets from Bucky’s. He joined the Montgomery High School Choir and participated in his first solo. He also played on the High School Varsity soccer team. Some of the difference he found between American and German Schools was here we startschool 40 mins earlier, we say the pledge a lot (he now has both memorized), and we have organized school programs, sports, and clubs. He will miss the programs and organizations, but is planning on keeping up with choir when he gets home. He got a little homesick at times, but his host families the Darby’s, Jaksiemasz, Perdu’s, Doris, Randall, and his friends (he made tons of friends) made him feel welcome. This was truly a year and experience he will not forget. He said a special thank you to the Rotary Club, and the host family for making him feels so welcome and helping him. He has two more years of school and he is planning on attending a University in Berlin. He plans on studying business and traveling to visit the friends he has made on his exchange!