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From the Rotary Club of
Frederick County,
Virginia, USA
Founded 1991
in Stephens City,
Virginia
Celebrating
our 20th year of "Service above Self”
Today
is Thursday, December 8, 2011
Next Monday
December
12, 2011 from 7:00 to 8:00 PM
Location:
Sherando High School – Choral Room
Interact
Club Meeting
Next Tuesday
December 13, 2011 from 7:30 to 8:30 AM
Fantastic Frederick
County Club Breakfast Meeting
***** Your Peanut Money
Is Due – Pick Up Your Peanuts*****
***** Sign up to help a
child. Cathy’s Kids Christmas Program
*****
Location: Shenandoah University,
Allen Hall, Clement Board Room
Program: The featured program speaker is Judith R. James, Ed.D. Director of Transition Programs Lord
Fairfax Community
College, she will be discussing the mission and
purpose of the College’s new
Office of Transitions.
About our Speaker
Dr. Judith R. James
In February 2011, Dr. Judith R. James was hired
as the director of Lord
Fairfax Community
College’s new
Office of Transition Programs. This new
office oversees four (4) programs providing an expanded bridge to college for
adult learners and a comprehensive array of academic preparation, career
development and other wraparound student support services to address their
unique and holistic needs.
Dr. James is also an active member of the
Regional Literacy Coordinating Council (RLCC) committed to improving literacy
among adult learners within a five county region in the Northern Shenandoah
Valley and a member of the Board overseeing Apple Country Head Start, serving Winchester City,
Frederick County
and Clarke County.
Prior to joining Lord
Fairfax Community
College, Dr. James served as Executive Director of the Prince George’s County
Board of Education and Special Assistant
to the Superintendent, Prince George’s County Public Schools,
the 2nd largest urban school district in Maryland
and the 18 largest in the nation.
Dr. James has also held progressively responsible
positions at the national level - as a director of urban and metropolitan
programs at the National
Center for Higher
Education and as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Education - reviewing
applications from higher education institutions seeking federal funding to
administer programs for first generation college going students.
At the state level, Dr. James worked for Ohio's
planning and coordinating agency for public higher education - The Ohio Board
of Regents - as the director of Ohio’s statewide access and success initiative
and the Teaching Leadership Consortium -
Ohio, an initiative to convene Ohio’s College of Education Deans to review the
state’s teacher preparation curriculum and recommend revisions to ensure Ohio
Pre-K-12 teachers were prepared to achieve successful learning outcomes and
close the achievement gap among culturally and linguistically diverse
populations.
Her community college experience includes
serving as the chief student affairs officer in both the Kentucky Community and
Technical College System (KCTCS) and the California Community
College system.
A native of Oakland, California,
she holds the following degrees: B.A. In Cultural Anthropology and Sociology
from Mills College
(Oakland, California);
M.A. In Education Administration from Holy
Names University
(Oakland, California)
and an Ed.D in Organization and Leadership in Education from the University of San Francisco.
December
2011"Rotary Family Month”
Programs: Ryan Oates
Gatekeepers: Mike Perry
and Joe Knechtel
Greeter: Ken Black
Club
Activities in December: Peanut Sales Conclude – Club Christmas Party –
Kathy’s Kid Christmas Toys – Election of Officers – Firewood for CCAP - Canned
Goods Each Week for CCAP – Start Thinking about District Award Applications
December 20, 2011 – Hanukkah begins.
December 20, 2011
7:30 a.m. at SU – Christmas and Hanukkah
Caroling with Kitty & John
***Bring Kathy Kid’s Christmas Toys to this meeting***
December 23, 2011
***Last day to deliver Kathy’s Kids Christmas Toys to Walters Frame
Shop located in Stephens
City***
December 25, 2011– Christmas Day
December
27, 2011
7:30 a.m.
at SU - Program: Club Members Vocational Program
Speakers:
Marietta Walls, DVM at Apple Valley
Animal Hospital, Tammy Stevenson, Marketing Executive and Malcolm Van
de Riet, Residential Contractor.
News from around Area 1
Just to let folks know Clarke County
Rotary will not be meeting on the following dates:
November
23, December 7 & December 28
Here's the schedule for
Winchester's
Latest Rotary Club:
December 6th- Meeting is a membership Drive at D'Vine Wines in Winchester- We
will not be at the Brew Pub.
December 13th- Normal meeting at the Brew Pub
December 20th- Meeting cancelled. Some members will be bell ringing at the
Apple Blossom Mall main entrance from 6-9pm
December 27th- Meeting cancelled.
District Awards
From Erica DeAzagra
We need members to help
write the applications for district awards. An evening work and dessert
party will be held at Erika's house in early January (7pm--date to be
determined).
Outreach
From Jim Stutzman
Committee Chair
Just wanted to
give everyone an update on our committee:
- We have successfully pulled off the
Thanksgiving day baskets for Free Medical Clinic and Healthy Families, donating
45 baskets.
- We have supported the efforts of the
Salvation Army by ringing the red kettle bell at JC Penny’s.
- We have solicited support this a.m.
from our club to help buy gifts for Cathy’s Kids for Christmas.
- We have completed our Holiday Peanut
Sales drive, selling over 600 cans of peanuts!
Thanks to everyone on the committee for
your help in these endeavors. Now that we have the holiday projects behind us,
it’s time to start planning the other projects we collectively decided we
wanted to activate this year to support the community outreach of our club.
Golf Tournament - Ryan Oates has volunteered to chair
this event and Calvin Gant agreed to co-chair this morning. Ryan was talking to
WCC to inquire about the possibility of hosting the event there and potential
cost. I hope to have details on that in the next couple of weeks. We are
tentatively looking at late April or early May as the timing for this event. I
would like to have at least 5 other volunteers to assist on a committee to help
organize this event. Please contact me and let me know if you are willing to
participate in this activity. I would like to hold our first committee meeting
before the Christmas holiday if possible, to lay out action items and begin
planning.
Online Auction - Wendy
Longerbeam & Bill Old have agreed to co-chair this event
and I would love to have 7 or 8 people agree to join this committee as well. We
are targeting an April time frame and welcome hearing from anyone who would
like to help.
Downtown Pub Crawl - This event is a totally new idea that we
are planning to wrap around a holiday in February. It should be a lot of fun
and help us raise the level of awareness of our club as well as a few dollars.
Erika has agreed to Chair this event with Scott Shendow as co-chair. This should
not be very labor intensive or costly, but we need about 4 people to
participate on the committee. Please contact me and let me know if you want to
help.
Thanks to all for your service,
Bo
"NOW YOUR GM
AUTHORIZED SATURN SERVICE AND PARTS PROVIDER SERVING THE NORTHERN
SHENANDOAH VALLEY REGION"
Jim Stutzman, Jr. President
Jim Stutzman Chevrolet-Cadillac Co.
2700 Valley Ave.Winchester, VA 22601
O-540-667-1000 F-540-678-2961 C-540-974-2201
Club
Administration
From Bill North,
Committee Chair
Not all
thieves are stupid. This gives us something to think about with all our new
electronic technology.
GPS
A couple of weeks ago a friend told me
that someone she knew had their car broken into while they were at a football
game. Their car was parked on the green which was adjacent to the football
stadium and specially allotted to football fans. Things stolen from the car
included a garage door remote control, some money and a GPS which had been
prominently mounted on the dashboard.
When the victims got home, they found
that their house had been ransacked and just about everything worth anything
had been stolen. The thieves had used the GPS to guide them to the house. They
then used the garage remote control to open the garage door and gain entry to
the house. The thieves knew the owners were at the football game, they knew
what time the game was scheduled to finish and so they knew how much time they
had to clean out the house. It would appear that they had brought a truck to
empty the house of its contents.
Something to consider if you have a GPS - don't put your home address in it..
Put a nearby address (like a store or gas station) so you can still find your
way home if you need to, but no one else would know where you live if your GPS
were stolen.
MOBILE PHONES
I never thought of
this.......
This lady has now changed her habit of how she lists her names on her mobile
phone after her handbag was stolen. Her handbag, which contained her cell
phone, credit card, wallet... Etc...was stolen.
20 minutes later when she called her hubby, from a pay phone telling him what
had happened, hubby says 'I received your text asking about our Pin number and
I've replied a little while ago.' When they rushed down to the bank, the bank
staff told them all the money was already withdrawn. The thief had actually
used the stolen cell phone to text 'hubby' in the contact list and got hold of
the pin number. Within 20 minutes he had withdrawn all the money from their
bank account.
Moral of the lesson:
Do not disclose the
relationship between you and the people in your contact list.
Avoid using names like Home, Honey, Hubby, Sweetheart, Dad, Mom, etc....
And very importantly, when sensitive info is being asked through texts, CONFIRM
by calling back
Also, when you're being texted by friends or family to meet them somewhere, be
sure to call back to confirm that the message came from them. If you don't
reach them, be very careful about going places to meet 'family and friends' who
text you.
Kathy’s Kids Christmas
Gift Program
From Ric Van Norton,
Committee Chair
Club Alert -
We have only 18 gift sponsors for 30 children with our annual Cathy Kids
Christmas Gift Program. Please contact
Ric at 540-335-7425 or ricvannorton@yahoo.com to help.
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