January 9, 2017

The Spokesman PROGRAM: President Stan Godwin Presiding TOPIC: CELEBRATE DESIGNS TO FIGHT HUNGER Invocation: Tim Webster Sergeant-At-Arms: Dwight Shaw & Gene Kester Greeters: Melissa Miller & John Bencini

Rotary Club of High Point Thursday 12:00 Noon 800 Country Club Drive

Email: hprotary@northstate.net Rotary Zone 33 Rotary District 7690 Rotary Club # 6062 Web: www.highpointrotary.org (club) www.rotary7690.org (district) www.rotary.org (int’l)

This Week at Rotary . . . . .

Last Week at Rotary . . . . . . It was fun catching up with everyone after a few weeks off at Rotary. There were lots of

smiles, handshakes, and stories passed around the room. I bumped into our speaker, Megan Ward, and mentioned that with all the

pressure of the predictions she didn’t look a bit nervous. She said everything was fine . . . she’d been drinking since nine! She had-

n’t really been drinking and she was on her game. She even cleaned out the Enterprise News Room and brought them all for sup-

port. When the Rotary bell rang, President Stan opened things up down at Centennial Station with a prediction . . . . he said he pre-

dicts over the next 72 hours that we will have between 0 and 8 inches of snow. That kind of prediction made Megan proud! I think

she wished she’d thought of that. He also mentioned our New Year’s Resolutions that we may have made. At my table Brian

Bunch said he had one until Janice Steede told him how good the brownies were for dessert. Easy come, easy go! After a welcome

back after the holidays, Stan called on Bill Kester to give the invocation which was more like a beautiful sermon with all he had jam

packed in there. Joe Craycroft welcomed guests which included parents, children, spouses, colleagues, and all those Enterprise

staffers who probably helped her with her material. Kem McAllister didn’t want to short change our speaker so she stuck to the

birthdays and anniversaries, which stacke3d up over the Christmas/New Year’s holidays. Debbie Lumpkins, our host at Centennial

Station, welcomed us and gave an update on the Arts Council. Joel Gentry had a report for the allocations committee coupled with

some jokes and stories. He is asking for suggestions of who we need to consider supporting next year with our fund raising as well

as who we might partner with as the major beneficiary of our BBQ & Auction in the new year. . Andy Harris came up for a foot-

ball pool wrap up. He hadn’t graced the podium since early November and thanked (continued on page four)

This Week we’ll be back at High Point County Club where we will cele-brate the successes of our Designs to Fight Hunger initiative over the Christmas Holiday Sea-son. What a gigantic success. Come be apart of the celebration as we recognize all those that played parts in this won-derful community effort to feed those in need.

Stan Godwin Kem McAllister Joe

Craycroft

Joel Gentry

January 9, 2017

ROTARY CLUB of HIGH POINT

2016-2017 Officers, Boards, Committees President Stan Godwin

President Elect Tammy Childress

Vice President Jeff Fuller

Secretary Kem Ellis

Treasurer Ken Esposito

Immediate Past President Tim Mabe

Executive Secretary David McCoy

Sergeant-At-Arms Amy West

District Liaison David McCoy

Membership Retention George White

Special Recognitions D. Shaw, K. McAllister, J. Anderson, J. Gentry

Family of Rotary Sharon Smith

New Comer's Committee George White

Blue Badge Administration George White

Football Pool Master Andy Harris

Rotary History David Wall

Birthday Cards Melissa Miller

Membership Recruitment Wil Elder

Classification Monica Peters

Orientation Robert Hoskins

Attendance Kem Ellis

Social Events Wil Elder

Club Public Relations Mary Sizemore

Spokesman Newsletter Mark Pierce

Website Development Dave McCoy

Facebook Carol Hughes

Press Releases Kem Ellis

Club Administration David Jackson

Anniversary Celebration Greg Suire

District Conf. Contacts S. Godwin, T. Childress

Youth Services Julie Muenzner

Interact Wanda Stewart, Keith Curlee

RYLA

Local Scholarships Brian Bunch

School/Student Relations Tim Linker

Job Shadowing Wanda Stewart

Children's Christmas Party Tammy Childress

Youth Service Chair John Curcio

Community Srvc Projects Bill Kester

Literacy (Read-A-Thon) Mary Sizemore

Concern For The Elderly Steve Ilderton

Salvation Army Bell Ringing Leigh Ann Kasias

Service Projects Gene Williams

Fundraising Projects Bryan Norris

BBQ & Auction Jeff Fuller,

Poinsettia Sale Greg Suire

Golf Tournament Tyler Adamson

ACC Day K. Esposito & N. Bowman

Allocations Joel Gentry

Foundation & Inter. Srv. Natalie Cridlebaugh

Polio Plus R. Ragan, D. McCoy

District Grants Mark Pierce

Programs Tom Blount

MAKE UP OPPORTUNITIES Monday

Furnitureland - String & Splinter 12 noon Greensboro-Crescent-Realtor Assoc. 12:30 pm

Tuesday

GSO-Airport-Cardinal Club 7:00 am HP Triad—String & Splinter 12 noon

Asheboro—Pinewood C.C. 12 noon

Lexington—YMCA 12:15 pm Guilford—Weir Jordan House 12:30 pm

W-S Benton Convention Center 12:30 pm

Jamestown—Jamestown Town Hall 6:00 pm

Wednesday

Kernersville—First Christian Church 7:00 am Archdale-Trinity Guil-Rand Fire Dept 12 noon

Thomasville—Woman’s Club 12:05 pm

Asheboro—Randolph

AVS Catering Banquet Center 12 noon

Greensboro-Coliseum Sp. EventsCtr 12:30 pm

Thursday

Greensboro-Gate City-O’Henry Hotel 7:00 am

W-S Stratford—Forsyth C.C. 12:30 pm

Friday

GSO Summit-Starmount Forest CC 12:30 pm

W-S Reynolda—Forsyth C.C. 12:30 pm

Anderson, Atkinson, J. Baker, Blake, Boone, C. Brown, R. Brown, Bulmer, F. Clodfelter, Conley, Cawford, Cridlebaugh, Curcio, Curlee, Draelos, Freeze, Harman, Heavner, K. Hughes, B. Jackson, Johnson, Kasias, McNeill, Miller, P. Morgan, Muenzner, Nelson, Pritchett, Reitzel, Kar. Robinson, Sink, Smyth, White, Whitley, Youngblood

MAKEUPS CREDITED Jan. 5, 2017 HORSEPOWER PROJECT:

Anderson 9/26 BBQ SET-UP: C. Brown 10/6

E-CLUB MAKE UP: Clinard 12/17

BBQ & AUCTION: Sink 10/7

BOARD MEETING: White 7/11

Rotary Leadership Institute (sessions l, ll, lll)

Sat., Jan. 14, 2017 Cary Friday, Jan. 20, 2017 Greensboro

(only part 1 in GSO)

Fri., Mar. 31, 2017 Thomasville Sat., April 1, 2017 Mooresville

COMING

ATTRACTIONS

Thurs. Feb. 2nd

Milton Iossi

Foreign Policy,

National Security

Issues 2017

Thurs. Jan. 19th

Denise Potter

H.P. Regional

Foundation

Thurs. Jan. 26th

Debbie Lumpkins

H.P. Arts

Council

$383

And Counting

Absences For The Meeting

Of Jan. 5th

The Enterprise’s Laura Green gets to Draw

as her Editor Megan Ward Looks

on With Ken Esposito

Thurs. Feb. 9th

Sadie Elder

Valentines

Day 101

ROTARY’S 2017 Rose Parade Float

“Princess’ Award” Winner as the Most Beautiful Float Under 35 Ft. and Under

From Concept to Completion!

‘Doing Good Around the World!”

It Took Rotarians Young & Old

Rotarians From the U.S. and Nine Foreign Countries Signed Up to Help.

N.C. Volunteers Came From Moore County and Jackson Springs.

THERE WERE NO BIRTHDAYS, ANNIVERSARIES, OR CLUB ANNIVERSARIES THIS WEEK!

January 9, 2017

Behind the Design The Rotary Rose Parade Float Committee, Inc. is an independent multi-district Rotary committee promoting Rotary International. This year’s float featured a friendly dragon who has the world at its feet as Rotary Celebrates “Doing Good in the World”. The globe trotting creature had eyes that blink and smoke that radiated from its nose as it welcomed 2017 across the globe. The dragon carried a 100-year medallion celebrating the Rotary Foundation Centennial as it began its journey through Pasadena. Costumed individuals carried suitcases adorned with the six Rotary symbols of peace and conflict prevention/resolution, disease prevention and treatment, water and sanitation, maternal and child health, basic education and literacy, and economic community development. This is Rotary’s 30th year in the Rose Parade.

LAST WEEK AT ROTARY . . . . . (continued from page one) the 40 or so Rotarians that played this year. Unfortunately he pointed

a finger at Don Shaw who ‘lost’ the last batch of predictions which was for a two week period. He wasn’t sure if he did that to prove

his incompetence to the club so he wouldn’t be asked to succeed Andy or if he did it top preserve fellow Tar Heel fan Herman

Hunter’s lead. Well, whatever the reason, Herman won. Andy gave him his choice of his new N.C. State cap or a stuffed Carolina

football. If I have to ask you which he took, you don’t know Herman. By the way, Don said he thinks the sheets are in a locker at

Wake Forest. And Stan, citing the ethics questions at UNC presented winner Herman with a brand new Four Way Test coin. Man,

all these guys are on their games today! Ken Esposito, waiting for Grayson Allen tripping jokes but reveling in their big win after

the one game suspension, came up with the $ 383 pot. Enterprise photo journalist Laura Green pulled the 2 of hearts. Tom Blount

cut short his introduction of Megan Ward since she is a well loved fellow Rotarian and veteran of this traition that dates back 60

years to when another High Point Enterprise editor and fellow Rotarian Holt McPherson started the year in review and look ahead

into the new year. She started with some of the year’s biggest stories like Say Yes, the heroin epidemic, HPU’s latest expansions,

the new GCS superintendent, the change in police chiefs, new business group CEO’s, the Rich Fork Preserve, Bill Horney’s 100 th,

Main St. Closure, Lisa Halwy and Owen Bertschi’s awards, and the $ 90,229 this Rotary Club gave away last year! She also talked

about the words of the year, the most over used word of the year (whatever), and some of the celebrities we lost in 2016. And I wish

I could share the obit that she shared with us that had the crowd in tears. She breezed back through last year’s predictions giving

herself a 15-11 record. In the head to head battle with Rotarians who matched wits with her on last year’s predictions, Joe Craycroft

came out on top with 15 correct. He won a bunch of ‘Attaboys’ and a new Rotary Four Way Test Coin. Megan said the most

viewed stories were Publix, the new Library Plaza, the Andrew Band # 1 Title, the ‘clown’ sightings, the e-coli scare, HB-2, Market,

and the number one story . . . . Krispy Kreme stopping making doughnuts locally. Then she stuck in the late rise of Duck doughnuts

coming to North High Point. Then she got into her 2017 predictions which included as many tongue in cheek jokes as it did true

predictions. You’ll find those elsewhere in this issue. After we said the Pledge of Allegiance (yes, at the end of the meeting) we ad-

journed with the Four Way Test!

January 9, 2017

Andy Harris Gives Herman a

Choice on His Prize

Debbie Lumpkins was our

Unofficial host last week

Stan ‘congratulates’ Herman

on his win?

Tom Blount gave a quickee

Intro of our speaker

Megan Ward delivered a Great

Program That kept us in stitches

most of the time with a little bit

of something for everyone.

Above, The Rev. Bill Kester

(well, he ought to be)

Gave a great invocation

MEGAN’S PREDICTIONS FOR 2017 - High Point will see an increase Diabetes cases from all of those Doughnuts - Publix will open to much fanfare and excitement. We could see serious traffic issues on Main and Eastchester. - Harris Teeter will compete with the new Publix with expansion of an existing store. - This year, as municipal voting goes back to odd-numbered years the majority of voters will still be so burned out from the 2016 Election, they will stay home and rock themselves to sleep. - We will see at least one existing member of city council run for mayor in 2017. - Business High Point Inc. will form their PAC and will have some influence the results of the city election, in that they won’t endorse certain candidates - Bruce Davis will run for something in 2017. - We will see more traction in the way of location and naming rights with the stadium proposal. . - An HPU Student will borrow one of those mannequins from the pharmacy department and keep it in the front seat of his car. When he get's pulled over for speeding, he'll push a button and tell the cop his wife's in labor. - Main street will open in time for Spring Market. - Mary Bogest will wear white or beige to an event. - Coach K gets national championship No. 6 in April. Pending good health following his back surgery. - Karma will come for Duke guard Grayson Allen. He will get what's coming to him. -The Carolina Panthers bounce back from a disappointing 2016 season by posting double-digit wins in 2017. - The New England Patriots win their fifth Super Bowl, and Patriots fans breathe a sigh of relief a week later when Tom Brady signs a contract ex-tension on his deal with Satan. - High Point Christian Academy football will make it three straight state championships.

- Here's what President Obama looked like at the start of his presidency and end… (Ooops, had to see her picture)

- Here's what Trump looks like now and here's what he'll look like at the end of his presidency…(Ooop, had to see her picture) - Former Gov. Pat McCrory resigns after one week working for the Trump administration after N.C. Senate president Phil Berger says he no longer has time to tell McCrory what to do. - Joel Gentry and dentists all over the country will be raking in the dough Thanks to that Associated Press report that there's no need to floss any-more.