ROTARY CLUB OF ABILENE The Rotator S e r v i c e A b o v e S e l f THIS WEEK: Membership and Orientation Meeting What does your membership mean? This year's officers will explain the structure of the club, the responsibilities of board members, plans for this year, and generally inform us what your membership does mean! Come if you're new to Rotary or our club and if you've been around for decades, come get excited all over again! President Kate Alvarez LAST MEETING: Aug. 24, 2018 RYLA Students/Exchange Student RYLA student Leif Erik Paul Johnson attended RYLA this past June. He is in Boy Scouts with Troop 206 as well as Sea Scouts with Ship 486. He is sixteen and a junior at Jim Ned High School where he is in UIL OneAct Play and Golf. Leif plays electric bass guitar in a band with friends and likes listening to music such as Classic Rock and Alternative Rock. He is the son of Rotarian Erik Johnson and sister of Hatti who attended RYLA in the summer of 2015. Alaina Peters, below left, daughter of Rotarian Whitney Peters told of her experience at RYLA several years ago In Fayetteville, NC and the continuing impact of the event. Nanda Hernandes, bottom right, is an exchange student from Brazil. She is attending Wylie High School. ROTARIAN OF THE WEEK BARBARA ROLLINS Barbara Breedlove Rollins was born an Aggie in College Station a few weeks after her dad got his Masters degree. She was the second of four gils in the family. Quickly the females went to Quanah, Texas, while Dad was trained in New Jersey. They lived in Lubbock nine years while Dad traveled West Texas and New Mexico selling chlorinators. Moving to Quanah, where Barbara's dad and both grandfathers were Rotarians and Barbara and two sisters were pianists for the club, Barbara graduated from Quanah High School in 1965 then received a B.S.inSecondary Education (Spanish and English) from Aug. 31, 2018
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ROTARY CLUB OF ABILENE
T h e R o t a t o rS e r v i c e A b o v e S e l f
THIS WEEK: Membership and OrientationMeeting
What does your membership mean?This year's officers will explain thestructure of the club, theresponsibilities of board members,plans for this year, and generallyinform us what your membershipdoes mean! Come if you're new to Rotary or ourclub and if you've been around fordecades, come get excited all overagain!
President Kate Alvarez
LAST MEETING: Aug. 24, 2018 RYLAStudents/Exchange Student RYLA student Leif Erik Paul Johnsonattended RYLA this past June. He is inBoy Scouts with Troop 206 as well asSea Scouts with Ship 486. He is sixteenand a junior at Jim Ned High Schoolwhere he is in UIL OneAct Play andGolf. Leif plays electric bass guitar in aband with friends and likes listening tomusic such as Classic Rock andAlternative Rock. He is the son of Rotarian Erik Johnsonand sister of Hatti who attended RYLA inthe summer of 2015. Alaina Peters, below left, daughter of Rotarian Whitney Peterstold of her experience at RYLA several years ago In Fayetteville,NC and the continuing impact of the event. Nanda Hernandes, bottom right, is an exchange student fromBrazil. She is attending Wylie High School.
ROTARIANOF THE WEEK
BARBARA
ROLLINS
Barbara Breedlove Rollinswas born an Aggie in CollegeStation a few weeks after herdad got his Masters degree.She was the second of fourgils in the family.
Quickly the females went toQuanah, Texas, while Dadwas trained in New Jersey.They lived in Lubbock nineyears while Dad traveledWest Texas and New Mexicoselling chlorinators. Moving toQuanah, where Barbara'sdad and both grandfatherswere Rotarians and Barbaraand two sisters were pianistsfor the club,
Barbara graduated fromQuanah High School in 1965then receiveda B.S.inSecondary Education(Spanish and English) from
Aug. 31, 2018
NEXT WEEK: Worth Moutray, RaisingExotic Wild Game in West Texas
UPCOMING EVENTS Membership/orientation meeting Worth Moutray, Raising exotic wild game in West
Texas Board meeting TMCN Kathy Kean John Hill, The Abilene Index Megan Dobbs, Work Again Program for
homeless
ANNOUNCEMENTS
President Kate Alvarez introduced KenHogan last Friday as our newest member.Ken is association executive for theAbilene Association of Realtors.
SPEAKERS NEEDED
Kelly Thompson, this year's program chair, is on the hunt forsome dynamicspeakers and entertainment. She has designed a flyer for youto present to your prospective speakers that should answer many questions, i.e.,
McMurry in 1969. She taughtseventh and eighth grade inBrownfield, got an M.A. inChristian Education fromScarritt College for ChristianWorkers in Nashville,Tennessee. She was churchstaff for a third church, nowUniversity United Methodistin Fort Worth. (The other twowere summer jobs." Barbara married MikeRollins in 1974, moved toWichita Falls where she settype for a Church of Christpublishing company whereshe was allowed to editEnglish but not theology.Moving to Austin for Mike'swork she became a legalsecretary. Getting bored aftereighteen months, she went toU.T. Law School for the fun ofit. Graduating with honors,she decided to practice law,and the family moved toAbilene where she worked forBradbury and Tippen, whichevolved to Bradbury, Tippen,Rollins & Adkins. Barbara and Mike havesons David and Jeffrey andgrandsons Jack and Justinwho seven. They and parentsDavid and Dezi live in Frisco.Jeffrey moved into Barbaraand Mike's house this weekbut continues to workcomputer magic for theCollege of Education atGrand Valley State Universityin Grand Rapids, Michigan. Barbara ran for the newlycreated County Court at Law#2 in 1988, was elected andserved until January 1, 2010.When her successor passedaway in 2016 theCommissioners Courtappointed Barbara to serveanother sixteen months, fromwhich she has reretired.
we cover the cost of their meal plus ONE. We have a projector but they mustbring their own computer, etc. At this time we only have three openings until the end of the year. However,the calendar is wide open beginning the first of 2019.
DUES
Statements for July December 2018 have been mailed. If you have anyquestions, please contact our treasurer, Peter Agnell. The statement includes abreakout of the $130 dues.
NEW MEMBER LUNCH POLICY
The Rotarian bringing a prospective new member to a meeting is responsible forpaying for his/her lunch. The only free lunch from the club for the new member ison the day he/she is introduced as a new member.
CLUB ATTENDANCE August 24, 2018 meeting
43 members out of 71 for an attendance rate of 61%.
DEALING FOR DOLLARS our pot will start out at $389.00.
CLUB OFFICERSPresident Kate Alvarez
PresidentElect Shaun Martin
Secretary Mary Beth Kilgore
Treasurer Peter Agnell
Directors Donna Albus Kevin Bradford
Myra Dean Keith Carroll Chris Meeks
Becky SpargoSergeant at Arms Marty Pothier
Asst: Charlie KitchellImmediate Past President Paul Thomas
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
This section highlights our Rotary members who are active in the community. Please let Mary Beth or Barbara know when you are involved in activitiesoutside Rotary, vacationing in exotic places, change jobs, etc.
publishing company. She haswritten a lot of books, startedeven more, had fivepublished by othercompanies, publishedanother four of hers, beeneditor of record for nineanthologies. She has writtenand published a poem a daysince May 4, 2011, a blogknown as Recovery DailyDose. Barbara joined this club in1988 to enable reelection asjudge. She stayed althoughafter the initial election shenever had another opponent.She helps with the Rotator,served on the Board twotimes, was secretary twoyears, has been programchair and on the committeeand helped in other roles.She was honored to beRotarian of the year in 2015and becomes Rotarian of theweek when it's been a whileand it's withouthaving someone else.
MAKEUPS
SOUTHWEST ROTARY Richard Rolison
Send makeups to [email protected] To complete a makeup online, contactone of the organizations below:http://www.oneworldrotary.org/
Registration: Keith Carroll Invocation: Raymond Blasingame Singing/Pledge: Becky Spargo
Friday
Thursday
Introductions: Pierce LoPachin Dealing for Dollars: Raymond Blasingame
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POLIO PLUS CONTRIBUTORSfor the 20182019 Rotary Year.
All members are asked to contribute$25 towards the 20182019 End PolioNow campaign. Those contributing thusfar are listed below. Members who havedonated since last week are in bold.
Peter AgnellDonna Albus Morris BakerDave Boyll J. T. BoxEd BrokawDon DrennanPeter Fox
BETTY HUKILL Erik Johnson
Mary Beth Kilgore Debbie Moot Erik Presley
Richard Rolison Barbara Rollins
Mike Schweikhard
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EVERY ROTARIAN EVERY YEAR(EREY)
Congratulations to the following whohave contributed to the 20182019
