Youth Exchange Program
Meetings: Wed. @ 6:30 PM in the Club Room at the Kutztown Tavern, 272 West Main Street, Kutztown
To download the Kutztown Club Brochure in pdf format, click here
When you drive along Main Street in Kutztown during the holiday season and once again enjoy the festive trees and lights, think of the Kutztown Rotary Club. The Kutztown Rotary donated the lights that adorn Main Street and in partnership with the Kutztown Community Partnership supplies the Christmas trees.
Kutztown Rotary celebrated Rotary International's 100th Anniversary in 2005 by providing 20 durable picnic tables for Kutztown Borough Park. In 2006, Kutztown Rotary celebrated its 80th Anniversary of community service.
The Kutztown Rotary Club dedicated its continuing community service to the memory of long-time fellow Rotarian Don Boyer by establishing the Kutztown Rotary Charitable Foundation. With the generous support of the golfers, sponsors and the community, the Don Boyer Golf Classic Tournament has raised over $30,000 since its inception. This year's tournament will be held at Golden Oaks CC. Money raised by this project is distributed to charitable and non-profit organizations throughout the community such as Friend, Inc. Community Services, the Kutztown Area Historical Society, the Don Boyer Scholarship Fund, the Kutztown and Brandywine Public Libraries, the Burn Prevention Foundation and many others.
Another major Rotary fund raiser is the annual Berks County Kennel Club Dog Show, held at the Kutztown Fairgrounds in September. This event raises thousands of dollars that are used for local and International Rotary projects.
Another fund raiser and enjoyable evening is the Kutztown Rotary Main Street Mini-Golf Tournament held in the fall in 18 businesses on Main Street in Kutztown.
A popular fund raiser is the Continental Shoot organized by Tom Turner. It has grown from an annual event to a semi-annual event. A recent fund raiser was Flatworks, the Kutztown Rotary Art Show & Sale. The Flatworks was held annually from 2004 to 2006.
Each month throughout the school year, Kutztown Rotary sponsors "The Student-of-the-Month", recognizing outstanding students from Kutztown and Brandywine Heights High Schools. The students attend a Rotary dinner meeting and speak to the Club about their school activities and their educational aspirations. Annually, four area students receive Rotary scholarships to colleges Or universities of their choice. Each year several area students are sponsored to attend Rotary District 7340's Camp Neidig; a multi-day leadership camp held in June.
Other community organizations and projects which are supported by Rotary include; Camp Edmar, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Brandywine Heights High School scholarship fund, the Kutztown Youth Athletic Assn., and high school sports awards. Rotary funds also support the planting of trees in the Kutztown and Topton Parks for Arbor Day, the YMCA, Special Olympics, Saucony Marsh Wetlands, and Camp Cadet. Rotarians support the Kutztown Day and Flag Day celebrations at the Kutztown Park with donations and manpower.
Rotarians' annual dues, plus individual Rotarian's contributions to the Rotary Foundation, help fund many International projects worldwide. These International projects represent tens of millions of dollars spent annually for eradicating polio, providing clean water, small business loans, housing development, and school and medical center construction just to name a few.
In June, Kutztown Rotary installs its new officers at the annual installation held at Camp Edmar, a Boy Scout Camp the Kutztown Rotary Club was instrumental in founding.
Individuals who wish to "get involved" in their community may contact any Rotarian or come to Rotary's weekly meeting as a guest. Kutztown Rotary meets every Wednesday at 6:30 P.M. in the Club Room at the Kutztown Tavern, 272 West Main Street, Kutztown, PA.
|
CASH PRIZES: 1st team - $150, 2nd team - $100, 3rd team $50 & Merchant Hole-in-One Prizes
Download and print this poster (in PDF format) and display around town.
Lukas, Patt McCloskey, Aaron Messersmith and Andrew McLellan as Lukas arrived at the Philadelphia Airport.
Cölbe is a community in Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse, Germany.
Cölbe's municipal area lies on the southern edge of the Burgwald, a low mountain range and part of the Hessisches Bergland (Hessian Highland), and borders directly on the university city of Marburg to the south.
Cölbe was the center of the European Union after its 2004 expansion. Romania and Bulgaria joined in 2007.
Locals from the area speak the Rhine Franconian dialect known as Hessisch.
In Germany, Lukas played Guitar in the band Sky Chief and played competitive Table Tennis.
As obesity rates continue to rise nationwide, Rotary Clubs in Berks County are trying to instill healthy habits in children.
Local clubs have distributed more than 1,000 pedometers to fifth-graders in Muhlenberg, Hamburg, Kutztown and Schuylkill Valley school districts and at Holy Guardian Angels Regional School, a parochial school in Muhlenberg Township.
Students are competing to see which classroom logs the most steps over the next six weeks.
The program, which launched Sept. 22, encourages kids to walk "10K a day," which is short for 10 kilometers - roughly six miles.
"We're trying to respond to the fact that many youth are sitting in front of the computer playing PlayStation games or just plain watching television, and that's impairing physical fitness," said Grant A. Wickert, past president of the Muhlenberg Rotary Club.
Wickert is pastor of Cavalry Lutheran Church in Laureldale. He organized the project with Amy Howard of the Kutztown Rotary Club, John Smith of the Hamburg Rotary Club and Tom Albert of the Shoemakersville-Leesport Rotary Club.
The group received a $2,500 Rotary grant and raised $4,000 in donations. That was enough to buy the pedometers and provide prize money.
The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that between 1980 and 2006 the number of obese children more than doubled, and in the case of teenagers, more than tripled, to 17.6 percent.
Childhood obesity often translates into overweight adults who are at increased risk for heart disease, type 2 diabetes and some forms of cancer.
Wickert acknowledged that six miles a day is a challenge for children. For adults, it takes about 2,000 steps to walk one mile, so six miles would equal 12,000 steps.
"That's a lot of walking," Wickert said. "It might not be realistic, but we wanted to give them something to shoot for."
Victoria R. Owens, 10, is a fifth-grader at Holy Guardian Angels. She thinks it will be no problem for her to meet the fitness goal.
By running in her backyard, up and down the steps to her basement, and laps at recess, she logged 15,218 steps on the first day of the challenge.
For Hamburg school officials, the decision to participate was easy, Superintendent Steven P. Keifer said. Concern about childhood obesity was just part of the reason.
"I'm a firm believer that exercise helps students learn better because it gets the blood flowing," Keifer said.
The fifth-graders aren't the only ones wearing the pedometers. They also were offered to principals, nurses, fifth-grade teachers, physical education teachers and Rotary Club members - although the adults' steps don't count toward the final tally.
The idea, Wickert said, is to encourage people of all ages to exercise and improve their health. Habits learned as a child often last into adulthood.
At the end of six weeks, totals will be tallied and two classrooms will be selected winners - one for the highest average of steps and one with the most improved performance. Each will receive a $300 gift card that must be used for a class project.
Prizes also will go to the two classrooms at each school that score best in those categories. Each will be awarded a $150 gift card.
| Kutztown FFA members President Amanda Mengel, Gavin Korz, Rebecca DeLong, Secretary Kaitlyn Sterner, and Nathan Dietrich with Commissioner Christian Leinbach, and Agriculture Coordinator of Berks County Sheila Miller at 2009 Rural-Urban Night. (photo by Lisa Mitchel, Kutztown Patriot) |
Since 1979, the Kutztown Rotary Club has been showing the local farmers their appreciation with the annual Urban-Rural Night. It is an evening to say 'thank you' to farmers in the area and to show appreciation for their work. In 2008, the Kutztown club added the Fleetwood Rotary Club to the endeavor to include more farmers in the Kutztown-Fleetwood area.
Organized by the Kutztown Rotary Club and Fleetwood Rotary Club, organizers included Jim Springer, Rotary President Keith Snyder, Larry Biehl and Bob Hobaugh."I like to think it's another way to say thank you to the farmers we don't usually have a chance to," said Springer. "To say 'we appreciate you for being a part of the community.'"
His favorite part of Urban Rural Night is the chance to spend time with people of the community. "It's not too often I get to do things like this," he said."For the past few years, we've been trying to expand to more farmers," said Springer, co-owner of Dunkelberger's Jewelry in Kutztown.
Last year, the Fleetwood Rotary Club joined in organizing the event. This year, there was a total of 105 farmers, dignitaries, guests and rotarians who attended. Springer hopes attendees gain "a deeper appreciation for the farming community. They're an important part of the community."
Hobaugh, a lawyer at Stevens & Lee, had organized this event for many years. "What we celebrate today is the farm community in Kutztown and Fleetwood," he said.
Some of the changes he has seen over the past 25 years include more women are involved in rotary and more women are farmers. "Agriculture is the biggest business in Pennsylvania. We're very fortunate to have a very strong agriculture community in Berks County," said Hobaugh. "We have some of the best soils. We have a wide range of agricultural enterprise." Berks agriculture includes dairy, grain, cattle and more recently horticulture, he said. "Tonight is a big celebration. The focus is very Berks County. As you can see by the attendance, it's a pretty well appreciated," he said.
Retired farmer Rudy Winkler who grew crops and raised beef cattle for 47 years in Maxatawny, likes the camaraderie of all the farmers and the rotarians he gets to see every year at Urban Rural Night. What he liked about being a farmer was being outside, the various jobs and working for himself.
Life-long farmer John Mertz of Maxatawny was a dairy farmer for many years. Now, he only grows crops such as corn, alfalfa, wheat and soy beans. "I think it's kind of neat that the rotarians thank the farmers. We've been coming to this for at least 25 years," said Mertz.
David Schantz is a second-generation dairy farmer in Longswamp Township. "It gives us a chance to meet the business people in the area who we usually don't get to meet," said Schantz.
His wife, Kathy, likes "being able to come to a nice, fancy restaurant and getting to see a lot of our farmer friends we don't normally get to see because we're busy farming."
Agriculture Coordinator for Berks County Sheila Miller was the featured speaker. She has been serving in this newly created position for a little more than a year. "Farmers are not isolated from the economic turmoil that other businesses have been experiencing the last 12 months," she said. "Because of my intervention with th county commissioners, farmers actually saw a reduction in real estate taxes."
The county had been applying a formula called the Clean and Green tax to help farmers stay in agriculture, but what was happening was taxes were increasing every year, she said. Many county farms had not been reassessed since the early 1990s and were locked in the formula, explained Miller. "The farmers are now having reasonable taxes based on true agriculture values," said Miller. Speaking to the packed banquet hall, Miller said, that agriculture is very important for Berks County. "It is a driving force for the economy," she said.
Sen. Mike O'Pake said that honoring the farming community is a great thing to do. The Pennsylvania Agricultural Land Preservation Board, he said, "makes sure Berks County gets more than its fair share of funding." In February, the board approved the preservation of an additional 707 acres in Berks through the purchase of conservation easements valued at more than $1.6 million. Statewide, 3,745 farms totaling 411,892 acres have been preserved. In Berks, 563 farms of 58,932 acres have been preserved.
County Commissioner Christian Leinbach noted the importance of promoting agriculture by keeping taxes lower, buying local and preserving farmland. "We need to protect the right to farm," said Leinbach.
Also, three local students were honored.
Brandywine Heights senior Kenneth Knerr, 17, of Mertztown, is studying heavy equipment at Berks Career and Technology Center. He wants to become an agriculture equipment technician. His hobbies include restoring antique tractors and participating in the The Old Time Plowboys Club.
Brandywine Heights senior Kris Levengood, 18, of Rockland Township, plans to study bioinformatics at Rochester Institute of Technology. His hobbies include playing basketball, soccer and tennis.
Kutztown senior Amelia Mengel is president of the Kutztown High School Future Farmers of America, student representative of the Kutztown Area School District School Board, vice president of the National Honor Society and secretary of the chorus. She is also a girl scout earning her Gold Award, for which she organizes Time Out, offering free child-care at Salem EC Church in Lenhartsville. [By Lisa Mitchell, The Kutztown Area Patriot, March 12, 2009]
Pervious speakers at Urban-Rural Night include Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture, Dennis Wolff, and Jeff Dorsheim, representing a new ethanol plant in the area.
Sponsors for this event include Fleetwood Auto Parts, Fleetwood Bank, and Hildenbrand Funeral Home in Kutztown.
Ms. Kutztown Pageant| Who: | Kutztown University Rotaract Club/Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity |
| What: | Tenth Annual Ms. Kutztown University Pageant |
| Why: | To Benefit The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation |
| When: | April 16th at 7 o'clock PM |
| Where: | Kutztown University Student Union Bldg., Rm. 183 (Multipurpose room) |
| Cost: | $4 Donation |
The Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity, which is also the Kutztown University Rotaract Club, sponsors the 10th annual Ms Kutztown Pageant on April 16, 2007.
The philanthropy was founded by Lambda Chi Alpha alumnus Christopher Tomlin and over its eight years has grown to be one of the fraternity´s largest and most well known functions.
The event is set up just like the real Miss America pageant, with talent and formal wear portions of the contest. Last years event raised $1,100 for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. A check was presented to breast cancer patient Gladys Collazo and Wanda Colon, program director of the Philadelphia branch of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, at the conclusion of the event by sophomore Adam Bauer, Vice President of External Relations for Lambda Chi and a Criminal Justice major.
"[Miss KU] is a wonderful event that brings awareness to students, faculty, staff and parents of
eradicating breast cancer," said Colon.
Lambda Chi Alpha, the Kutztown University Rotaract Club, raises a similar amount of money for Breast Cancer in May when they participate in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Philadelphia each year.
This outpouring of charity is not new to this Kutztown University Fraternity. Since 1993, Lambda Chi Alpha has been coordinating an international philanthropy project that has now raised more than 28 million pounds of food for the needy across North America. Called the Lambda Chi Alpha North American Food Drive, this annual event is arguably the largest single-day philanthropic project sponsored by a collegiate organization. In 2006, Lambda Chi Alpha collected almost 2,564,846 pounds of food with approximately 100 chapters and colonies participating. Among all chapters, Kutztown ranks 7th with a total of 101,760 pounds, 4 times the national average. "Brothers Feeding Others" is more than a slogan. Kutztown Rotary has partnered with their Rotaract Club on this project and the Rotaract Club assists the Rotary Club with the dog show, the Flatworks Art Show and other Club projects that support Rotary International and its projects around the world.
Our next Foundation Dinner is November 11, 2009, at Kutztown Tavern, 272 West Main Street, at 6:30 PM.
 |
Paul Harris Award recipients, Larry and Shirley Biehl, Bill Bender, and Patt McCluskey with Kutztown Rotary President, Marie De Filipps. |
Our November 11, 2009, meeting was a special Rotary Foundation Dinner. We took this opportunity to honor 3 Kutztown Rotarians, Patt McCluskey received her first Paul Harris Fellowship, Bill Bender received his second Paul Harris Fellowship and Larry and Shirley Biehl, who received their 10th Paul Harris Fellowship award. This award is for significant service to the Rotary Foundation, thereby furthering better understanding and friendly relations among peoples of the world.
Rotary Foundation Chairman Larry Biehl stated:
"Since I became a Rotarian over 18 years ago, our Club has gone thru dramatic changes, but just as then our commitment today remains the same; service to our fellow-man.
Each of us contributes to Rotary in his or her own way and together we will make a difference. Lets continue showing the way."
The Rotary Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and friends of the Foundation who share its vision of a better world. Rotary Foundation accomplishes this vision to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.
Kutztown Rotary Foundation
 |
Kutztown Rotary Foundation Chairman Larry Biehl, Friend Inc. Interim Executive Director Erica Hesselson, Louisa Gonser Community Director Janet Yost, Kutztown Rotary President Marie De Filipps, and Burn Foundation President Dan Dillard. |
The Kutztown Rotary Foundation supports the Rotary Foundation, but it also supports many local charities including the Kutztown Rotary Donald L. Boyer Scholarship Fund which provides scholarships to Kutztown and Brandywine Heights graduates; Louisa Gonser Community Library, Brandywine Library, Friend Inc., Kutztown Fire Co., Topton Fire Co., Lyons Fire Co., Burn Prevention Foundation, Salvation Army, and Berks Women In Crisis.
Funding for the Kutztown Rotary Foundation comes from many projects of the Kutztown Rotary Club including the annual Donald L. Boyer - Kutztown Rotary Golf Classic, the Kutztown Rotary Spiedies Sale at the Energy Fest, and donations from the Berks Kennel Club in exchange for Kutztown Rotary providing the infrastructure of the Kutztown Dog Show. Kutztown Rotary Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charity operated by the Kutztown Rotary Club.
 |
|||
| "There was always a good program and meal, and that was enough to keep me coming back, and back and back again for more," says Isaac R. "Ike" Evans in response to his award for 41 years of Rotary Club service. | |||
Isaac. R. "Ike" Evans, 80, a Kutztown-area man who is moving to a Chester County retirement home, is honored by fellow Rotarians before he relocates.
©2006 Reading Eagle Company
By Marcia Weidner-Sutphen
Reading Eagle
Isaac R. "Ike" Evans liked to mingle with his peers and, well, eat.
In the 1960s after an accidental meeting that was followed by engaging conversation and a good meal, Evans decided to join the Rotary Club.
Evans, 80, enrolled with the Topton Rotary Club in 1965 while he worked as a design controller for Caloric Stove Co. in Topton.
"I enjoyed meeting professionals, and there was always a good program and meal, and that was enough to keep me coming back and back and back again for more," Evans said.
Rotary International provides humanitarian services through more than 32,000 clubs and 1.2 million members worldwide.
For 41 years, the Maxatawny Township resident has made an effort to attend at least one weekly Rotary Club meeting. When that wasn't possible, he volunteered at a Rotary event, which holds the same merit as going to a meeting.
That amounted to about 2,100 meetings.
In August, members of the Kutztown Rotary Club, where Evans is a member today, honored him for his faithful attendance during an event at East Penn Manufacturing Co. near Lyons
Club members believed their fellow Rotarian was unstoppable, but in September, misfortune ended Evans' attendance streak.
Evans, who is diabetic, said he thinks he was prescribed the wrong dose of insulin.
"I passed out in my home," he said. "When I woke up, I called 9-1-1 and was taken to the hospital by ambulance."
After leaving the hospital, he stayed with his oldest daughter, Rebecca Huzar of Mendenhall, Chester County; and later with another daughter, Diane M. McDermott of Mount Pleasant, S.C.
He did not attend a Rotary meeting during his recovery.
But Evans came home Nov. 3, and five days later he was back at a Rotary meeting.
Evans said goodbye to club members at that meeting because he is moving to a retirement home near Honey Brook in northern Chester County.
"I'm going to look for another club," he said. "I hear there is one in Downingtown."
Jim R. Springer, club president, said Evans is not the Kutztown Rotary's oldest member, but he is the only one with perfect attendance.
"He made every effort in his life to be there," Springer said. "You don't see that very often."
Evans credited his wife of 52 years, Nancy P., for helping him remember meeting times and locations. She died Jan. 31, 2004.
"She would drive me to meetings and wait for me in the car and read," Evans said. "She loved to read."
Evans also attended Rotary Club meetings when he was on the road in the late 1960s doing consulting work for Capitol Records in Scranton.
He was a member of the Topton Rotary until the late 1980s when that club closed due to a lack of members, he said.
"I immediately joined the Kutztown club without skipping a beat," he said.
[Contact reporter Marcia Weidner-Sutphen at 610-371-5081 or
.]
Out-Bound to South Africa: Sept. 9 - Oct. 10, 2006
In-Bound to Pennsylvania: April 16 - May 18, 2007
Kutztown Rotary's Representative to the Out-Bound S. Africa 2006 District 7430 Group Study Exchange Team was Kevin Schmeck
The Kutztown Rotary Club sponsors long term outbound and inbound student exchanges. All participating students must be under 18 years of age and must attend high school while they are in their host country.
The club is responsible for finding suitable homes for the guest exchange student, and for providing a support system for both the student and the host families. Exchange students are expected to participate in Rotary District events once each month (the club provides the transportation). They are expected to be a participating member of the host family's household. And they must follow the rules of behavior delineated by Rotary International and Essex, our exchange program operator. All incoming students must carry their own health insurance effective in the host country and are encouraged to obtain liability coverage.
The timetable for the exchange is generally as follows:
For more information contact Patt McCloskey (610-683-6546).
On July 30, 2003, the Rotary Club of Kutztown, and it's President, Tom Turner (front row, second from right), welcomed District Governor, B. J. Metz (red tie), and the District's First Lady, Kristie Metz (red scarf). Also present was Assistant District Governor, Leroy Seip, (front row, right). Other club members pictured are (front row from left) Richard Wagner, Patt McCloskey, Jean Boyer, (back row from left) Isaac Evans, Bob Hobaugh, Bill Bender, Ham Phillips, Dan Breidegam, George Barrell, Jim Springer, Dennis Lutz, Larry Biehl, Jim Scott, Steve Henning, Barry Martin and Denton Fenstermacher. Also present but not pictured was Margaret Grossman.
On April 10, 2003, the Rotary Club of Kutztown hosted the District Reception for the Group Study Exchange Team from Columbia. Past District Governor, Bob Antoine organized the exchange. Exchange members are, left to right: Juan G. Ospina Rodriguez, Business Management; Paulina Saldarriaga-Ehlers, International Business; Pablo Arlas Amezquita, Civil Engineer; Jiovany Orozco, Electrical Engineer; and Team Leader, Eduardo De La Cruz, Industrial Engineer.
Rotary celebrates its Centennial in February 2005. The Rotary Centennial in 2005 provides the ideal opportunity for Rotary Clubs to showcase their community service projects in the 30,000 communities worldwide served by Rotary Clubs. Clubs worldwide are joining in this global effort to demonstrate the remarkable scope and power of Rotary service. The Kutztown Rotary Club is working with the Borough of Kutztown to provide 20 durable picnic tables for Kutztown Park.
Help the Kutztown Rotary Club provide durable picnic tables for Kutztown Park. To help finance the project there will be a monument made up of bricks with the names of those who participate. The donation required for a brick to be placed on the monument is $100. For a $100 donation Rotary will place a brick on the monument with the name you specify and will donate $25 to the charitable organization you select.
Sign up today. Be a Kutztown Rotary Centennial Project sponsor. Download the Rotary Centennial Project flier. Fill out the coupon with the name of a person or organization you designate. Make a check payable to "Kutztown Rotary". Send the coupon on the flier and a check for $100 for a brick for picnic tables for the park to: Kutztown Rotary, PO Box 127, Kutztown, PA 19530
Rotarians, sign up today. Be a Kutztown Rotary Centennial Project sponsor. Download the Bricks for Members flier. The donation required for a brick to be placed on the monument is $100. For a $100 donation, we will place a brick with the name of a present or past Rotary member and the Rotary wheel on the monument. In conjunction with this project, bronze markers will be placed in the park which reinforce the principles of Rotary. Fill out the coupon with the name of a present or past Rotarian. Make a check payable to "Kutztown Rotary". Send the coupon on the flier and a check for $100 for a brick for a past or present Rotarian to: Kutztown Rotary, PO Box 127, Kutztown, PA 19530
The 2010 Kutztown Rotary's Don Boyer Golf Classic will be held Monday, August 2, at Golden Oaks Country Club.
At last year's tournament eighty eight golfers and generous sponsors made this tournament a financial success, according to tournament chairman George Barrell.
Major corporate and individual sponsors included: East Penn Manufacturing; Spring Ridge Surgical Specialists; Kutztown Auto Co.; Fleetwood Bank; Kutztown University; Larry & Shirley Biehl; Long, Barrell and Co., Ltd.; National Penn Bank; and Wachovia/Wells Fargo.
Hole sponsors included 35 businesses and individuals in the East Penn Valley. Because of this generous support, The Kutztown Rotary Foundation will be able to distribute approximately $10,000 to the tournament's major charities and other community projects. The major beneficiaries of the tournament last year were the Kutztown Rotary Donald L. Boyer Scholarship Fund; Friend, Inc.; Louisa Gonser Library; Brandywine Library; Berks Women in Crisis; Burn Prevention Foundation; Kutztown Fire Company; Lyons Fire Company; The Salvation Army; Topton Fire Company; and various other community charities. Additional funds are used for other Rotary community and International projects throughout the year. This years goal is $10,000.
The Donald L. Boyer Kutztown Rotary Scholarship was established in memory of Donald Boyer, a devoted community member whose life was shortened by a battle with cancer. During Mr. Boyer´s life, he gave selflessly to the Kutztown community through participation and leadership in various civic, church, and political organizations, including Kutztown Borough Council, Kutztown Jaycees, Kutztown Rotary Club, Friend, Inc., and St. John's Lutheran Church. Within these organizations he held various leadership positions, including regional and state positions. This scholarship was created by family, friends, and the Kutztown Rotary to keep the spirit of Donald's volunteerism and leadership alive in our community's youth. The greatest portion of this endowment is contributed by the Kutztown Rotary Foundation with funds raised from the Foundation's Annual Donald Boyer Golf Classic.
The purpose of this scholarship is to encourage and recognize youth volunteerism in our community. Applicants for this scholarship MUST
In addition, all scholarship moneys will be released directly to the academic institution. Scholarship rewards are not payable to the individual recipient.
. Kutztown High School students can get their applications from Amy Howard.
Brandywine Heights High School students can download their application when they are available.
* There are three versions of each bulletin. The differences are:
1) pdf - Pdf is the best format to print. Most internet browsers can open pdf's. You will need a pdf reader such as Adobe Reader. If you don't have Adobe Reader, get a free copy from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
2) Word - This is the standard Microsoft Word .doc format.
3) html - Just click on this to read the Bulletin in your internet browser.
As of December 1, 2004*, our Bulletins are no longer printed on paper and mailed. Please give any new or changed email addresses to Steve Henning or send your e-mail address to
. Or you can visit this website to read the newsletter at http://www.kutztownrotary.org . News will be delivered more timely, more efficiently and cheaper via the web.
*This was approved unanimously by the board of directors, Wednesday, November 17, 2004. All efforts are being made to get an e-mail address of each member or to arrange for another member to contact those without e-mail.
| President | Jim Springer | 610-682-7764 | B: 610-683-7011 |
| President Elect | Keith Snyder | 610-944-6891 | |
| Directors: | Marie J. De Filipps | 610-682-0936 | |
| Dave Owen | 610-683-5625 | 610-683-9095 | |
| Pat Kutz | 610-944-9456 | ||
| Directors at Large: | William H. Bender | 610-987-3552 | |
| vacant | |||
| Corresponding Secretary | vacant | ||
| Club Secretary | Steve Henning | 610-987-6184 | |
| Treasurer | Steve Sharadin | 610-683-5495 | 610-683-1597 |
| Bulletin Editor | vacant | ||
| Sergeant at Arms | Larry Biehl | 610-562-3374 | |
| Past President | Marie J. De Filipps | 610-682-0936 | |
| Program Coordinator | Jean Boyer | 610-683-3256 |
CLUB SERVICE Keith Snyder |
VOCATIONAL SERVICE Tom Turner |
COMMUNITY SERVICE Marie J. De Filipps |
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE Barry Martin |
Program Coordinator * Jean Boyer Attendance * William Bender Classification, Membership and Orientation William H. Bender Larry Biehl Nancy Hildenbrand Fellowship Club Bulletin * Patt McCloskey Stephen M. Henning Jean Boyer Audit * George S. Barrell |
Rural-Urban * Patt McCloskey * Jim Springer Larry Biehl William H. Bender Jean Boyer Camp Neidig * Patt McCloskey Dean G. Wetzel Youth / Student of the Month * Larry Biehl Scholarship / Awards * Amy Kohler Howard Karissa Barrell Dr. Brenda Winkler |
Golf Classic Thomas Turner Jim Springer Dennis R. Lutz George S. Barrell Larry Biehl Dog Show * Marie J. De Filipps Nancy Hildenbrand Dennis R. Lutz Larry C. Biehl Barry Martin Public Relations * Stephen M. Henning Larry Biehl Tom Turner Ways & Means George S. Barrell Jim Springer William H. Bender Dan Breidegam Tom Turner |
International Service
|
To download the 2010-11 Program Schedule in pdf format, click here
or for .doc (Word) format, click here
JULY 2010 - Literacy Month |
||
| 7 |
G. Barrell | |
14 |
B. Bender | |
21 |
Club Assembly - Jim | |
28 |
Scholarship Dinner - A. Howard | |
AUGUST 2010 - Membership & Extension |
||
| 4 |
J. Boyer | |
11 |
Steak Fry - N. Hildenbrand | |
18 |
Reading Phillies ? D. Lutz | |
25 |
District Governor Visits | |
SEPTEMBER 2010 - New Generation |
||
| 1 |
J. Cevallos | |
| 8 |
M. DeFilipps | |
15 |
M. Handler | |
22 |
B. Hobaugh | |
29 |
P. Kutz | |
OCTOBER 2010 - Vocational Service |
||
| 6 |
Student of the Month - l. Biehl | |
13 |
B. Martin | |
20 |
Club Assembly - Jim | |
27 |
Trick or treat Handouts - J. Boyer | |
NOVEMBER 2010 - Rotary Foundation |
||
| 3 |
Student of the Month - L. Biehl | |
10 |
Foundation Dinner | |
17 |
P. McCloskey | |
24 |
No Meeting ( Thanksgiving Eve ) | |
DECEMBER 2010 - Family |
||
| 1 |
Student of the Month L. Biehl | |
| 8 |
D. Owen | |
15 |
Christmas Party | |
22 |
No Meeting | |
29 |
H. Piperato | |
JANUARY 2011- Rotary Awareness |
||
| 5 |
Student of the Month - L. Biehl | |
12 |
S. Sharadin | |
19 |
Club Assembly - Jim | |
26 |
K. Snyder | |
FEBRUARY 2011 - World Understanding |
||
| 2 |
Rural-Urban Night | |
| 9 |
D. Wagner | |
16 |
Valentine Party | |
23 |
S. Henning | |
MARCH 2011 - Literacy & World Rotaract Week |
||
| 2 |
Student of the Month - L. Biehl | |
| 9 |
Ash Wednesday ( No Meeting ) | |
16 |
J. Boyer | |
23 |
B. Bender | |
30 |
M. DeFilipps | |
APRIL 2011 - Magazine |
||
| 6 |
Student of the Month - L. Biehl | |
13 |
Club Assembly - Jim | |
20 |
Holy Week ( No Meeting ) | |
27 |
Spring Fling | |
MAY 2011- Volunteer |
||
| 4 |
Student of the Month _ L. Biehl | |
11 |
G. Barrell | |
18 |
M. Handler | |
25 |
N. Hildenbrand | |
JUNE 2011- Rotary Fellowships |
||
| 1 |
Reading Phillies???? Or 8th | |
15 |
Installation | |
22 |
P. Kutz |
|
If you are unable to fulfill your program assignment on a particular date, it is your responsibility to change with another Rotarian. Please advise the following people of any changes:
| Bulletin Editor: | Patt McCloskey | 610-683-6546,
|
| Program Director: | Jean Boyer | 610-683-3256,
|
| President: | Jim Springer | 610-682-7764 or B: 610-683-7011 |
| Webmaster: | Steve Henning | 610-987-6184,
|
Call Jim Springer for more information.
| Club | Time | Place | Contact |
MONDAY |
|||
| Boyertown | 715 | Saville's - 2nd & 4th Monday, 830 E. Phila. Ave, Boyertown, PA | 610-506-1228 |
| Shillington | 1800 | Deluxe Rest., 2295 Lancaster Pike, Reading | 610-775-4345 |
| Boyertown | 1815 | Bally Hotel - 1st, 3rd, & 5th Monday, Rt. 100, Bally, PA | 610-506-1228 |
| Shoemakersville | 1815 | Hoss's Garden Restaurant, Rte. 61, Leesport | 610-926-5830 |
TUESDAY |
|||
| Muhlenberg (Reading) | 1800 | River Edge Restaurant, 2017 Bernville Road, Reading | 610-916-1916 |
| Conrad Weiser | 1215 | Ozgoods Restaurant, Rt. 422, Robesonia | 610-589-4542 |
| Northeast Reading | 715 | Garden Restaurant, 3455 Centre Ave, Reading | 610-929-5411 |
WEDNESDAY |
|||
| Mt. Penn | 730 | O'Malley's Restaurant, Reading Mall, Rt. 422, Exeter | 610-779-8833 or 779-0536 |
| Allentown West - Western Lehigh County | 730 | Luther Crest Home, 800 Hausman Road, Allentown | 610-395-2832 |
| Fleetwood | 730 | Golden Oaks, Rt. 73 east of Pricetown, Fleetwood | 610-944-9454 |
| Allentown Liberty Bell | 730 | Morgan's Restaurant, 19th & Allen Streets, Allentown | 610-434-9333 |
THURSDAY |
|||
| Hamburg | 730 | Hamburg Boro Hall, 3rd St., Hamburg | 610-488-7968 |
| W. Reading - Wyomissing | 1205 | The Inn At Reading, 1040 Park Road, Wyomissing | 610-376-7351 |
| Reading | 1205 | Goggleworks, 2nd & Walnut Streets, Reading | 610-779-4729 |
| Birdsboro | 1830 | Reading Country Club, 5311 Perkiomen Ave (Rt. 422), Reading | 610-582-8464 |
FRIDAY |
|||
| Spring Twp - Centennial | 715 | Crown Plaza Hotel, Wyomissing | 610-678-2444 |
| Allentown | 1200 | Holiday Inn, 904 West Hamilton Street, Allentown, Pa | 610-433-2221 |
Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide, who provide humanitarian service; encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
There are approximately 1.2 million Rotarians, members of more than 31,000 Rotary clubs in 167 countries.
Rotary's first emblem was a simple wagon wheel (in motion with dust) representing civilization and movement. It was designed in 1905 by Montague Bear, a member of the Chicago club, who was an engraver, and many Rotary clubs of the time adopted the wheel in one form or another.
In 1922, authority was given to create and preserve an official emblem, and the following year the present gear wheel with 24 cogs and six spokes was adopted. A keyway was added to signify that the wheel was a "worker and not an idler." At the RI Convention in 1929, royal blue and gold were chosen as the official colors.
Rotary International is one of the world's largest service organizations, with some 31,000 clubs in more than 160 countries. Members of a Rotary club are part of a diverse group of professional leaders working to address various community and international service needs and to promote peace and understanding throughout the world. Annually, Rotary clubs worldwide invite a limited number of men and women to become members.
These prospective members represent various businesses and professional activities in their communities. As a progressive-minded business or professional person, you will see that belonging to a Rotary club, where outstanding representatives of the different vocations in your community come together, has its benefits.
To be invited, you must be:
Rotary clubs provide:
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
|
The mission of Rotary International is to assist and guide Rotarians and Rotary Clubs to accomplish the Object of Rotary; to ensure Rotary's continuing relevance; and to help build a better world, emphasizing service activities by individuals and groups that enhance the quality of life and human dignity, encourage high ethical standards, and creating greater understanding among all people to advance the search for peace in the world.
- ABCs Of Rotary (pdf)
- Fall Pheasant Fest Continental Shoot (pdf)
- Induction Ceremony (rtf)
- Kutztown Covered Bridge Tour (pdf)
- Kutztown Hex Barn Tour (pdf)
- Kutztown Rotary 2009-10 Program Schedule (pdf)
- Kutztown Rotary Letterhead (doc)
- Kutztown Rotary Tri-fold Brochure (pdf)
- New Member Proposal Form (pdf)
- Paul Harris Presentation (rtf )
- Rotary Basics (pdf)
- Rotary Foundation Gift Form (pdf)
- Theme Brochure for 2009-2010 (pdf)
- Why Join Rotary (pdf)
- 4 Rotary Prayers (pdf)
Club Attendance Recording Forms (pdf) (revised 5/3/10):
