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Oriental Rotary Club on Facebook: CLUB #6172, DISTRICT #7720 www.orientalrotary.org PROGRAMS: PO BOX 205 – ORIENTAL, NC 28571 11/05/18 Lee Adams, Chair, District Rotary Foundation Website: www.orientalrotary.org 11/12/18 Business Meeting

NEXT MEETING MONDAY, , 2018

4-WAY TEST: “OF THE THINGS WE THINK, SAY, OR DO:”

1. IS IT THE TRUTH?

2. IS IT FAIR TO ALL CONCERNED?

3. WILL IT BUILD GOODWILL AND BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

4. WILL IT BE BENEFICIAL TO ALL CONCERNED?

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LEE ADAMS, DISTRICT FOUNDATION CHAIR

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018 MEETING SUMMARY

President John Barlow called the meeting to order. Hugh Midyette

led the opening song, the selection being, “Sing Out a Song of Rotary.” The recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance was led by Past President George Steenson, while Hugh Midyette led the 4-Way Test recitation. President Barlow offered an invocation and welcomed guest speaker, Lee Adams, and guest Mary Stone. The guests and led the buffet line. Post dinner, President Barlow recognized Tim Fowler to introduce the program speaker, District Foundation Chair, Lee Adams, who presented to the Club verbal and written information about the Rotary Foundation. She began by congratulating the Club of its remarkable participation in the Foundation: 100% club participation in donating to the Foundation and giving at least $100 per member. Oriental Rotary Club is the Number One Club in the District for per capita giving at $490 as well. She went on to describe the structure of the service work of the Foundation, including 1) Provision of clean water, sanitation, and hygiene; 2) Supporting education; 3) Addressing disease; 4) Saving mothers and children; 5) Engaging local economies; and 6) working for peace (a Rotary Peace Center is to be found at Chapel Hill). She continued by listing the distribution of grants by the Foundation, including the grants in District 7720 and the two grants for the Oriental Rotary Club used for dictionary distribution and scholarship assistance. Chairwoman Adams then closed by sharing what we can do to further support the Foundation: help meet the challenge to raise an additional $1M along with

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District 7730. She again appreciatively acknowledged on behalf of the Foundation the significant donation given by the Rotary Club of Oriental. Thanks, Lee, for what you do for the Foundation and Rotary and for sharing with us.

Phyllis Yodlowski then conducted the Happy $s collection with generous h participation, Chris Mathewson presented a birthday recognitions for Phyllis Yodlowski, Cathy Santore, and John Barlow. President Barlow then called attention to the poster at each table regarding a presentation by Sons of Serendip. Jan Mosca updated the Club with the latest about the Luby’s Breakfast on 12/08. Pappy Khouri informed the Club of the remaining Car Show t-shirts on sale for $10. There were 40 cards in the Queen drawing, with Tim Fowler holding the winning pot ticket, but the Queen lives with 39 cards.

PHOTOS OF THE WEEK

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“Whatever Rotary may mean to us, to the world it will be known by the results it achieves.” ----Paul Harris

THE CAR SHOW

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ALL HONORABLE MENTION

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Poem of the Month

Three Epitaphs For a Postal Clerk Here lies wrapped up tight in sod Henry Harkins c/o God. On the day of Resurrection May be opened for inspection.

For a Rail Traveler Here lie Jonah Jones's uncoupled remains: A cowcatcher caught him as he changed trains. His fragments took off in a few directions. May he rise at the last trump to make connections.

For a Washer of Dishes Here rattle about in the suds of the grave The porcelain bones of a deep-sink slave. Impeccable platters were what he wrought With a face like a rag wrung dry of thought. Let the scouring rain and the sponging worm Deliver his spirit from crust and crumb And stack him up high beyond sin and stain In the light of the Lord to let him drain. by by X.J. Kennedy, from Peeping Tom's Cabin: Comic Verse 1928-2008. © BOA Editions, 2007

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY –November 12  954 – The 13-year-old Lothair III is crowned at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as king of the West Frankish Kingdom.  1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.  1330 – Battle of Posada: Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army by ambush.  1439 – Plymouth becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.  1555 – The Second Statute of Repeal re-establishes Roman Catholicism in England under Queen Mary I.  1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.  1892 – William Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.  1893 – Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.  1905 – Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly-independent country.  1912 – King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.  1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.  1918 – Austria becomes a republic. After the proclamation, a coup attempt by the communist Red Guard was defeated by the social-democratic Volkswehr.  1920 – Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.  1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.  1928 – SS Vestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320 km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.  1936 – In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.  1940 – World War II: The Battle of ends as Free French Forces take , Gabon, and all of from Vichy French forces.  1940 – World War II: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrives in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis Powers.  1941 – World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 °C as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.  1941 – World War II: The Soviet cruiser Chervona Ukraina is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol.  1942 – World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days and ends with an American victory.  1944 – World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers, which sink the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.  1948 – In Tokyo, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.  1954 – Ellis Island ceased operations.  1956 – Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.  1956 – In the midst of the Suez Crisis, Palestinian refugees are shot dead in Rafah by Israeli soldiers following the invasion of the Gaza Strip.  1958 – A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.  1969 – Vietnam War: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.

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 1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.  1970 – The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall on the coast of East Pakistan becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history.  1971 – Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.  1975 – The Comoros joins the United Nations.  1977 – France conducts the Oreste nuclear test as 14th in the group of 29, 1975–78 French nuclear tests series.  1979 – Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.  1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.  1981 – Space Shuttle program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.  1982 – USSR: Yuri Andropov becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.  1990 – Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.  1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.  1991 – Santa Cruz massacre: Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.  1995 – Erdut Agreement regarding the peaceful resolution to the Croatian War of Independence was reached.  1996 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date.  1997 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

 1999 – The 7.2 Mw Düzce earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 845 people were killed and almost 5,000 were injured.  2001 – In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.  2001 – War in Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.  2003 – Iraq War: In Nasiriyah, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.  2003 – Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record (501 kilometres per hour (311 mph)) for commercial railway systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles.  2011 – Silvio Berlusconi tenders his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy, effective November 16, due in large part to the European sovereign debt crisis.  2011 – A blast in Iran's Shahid Modarres missile base leads to the death of 17 of the Revolutionary Guards members, including Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile program.  2014 – The Philae lander, deployed from the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, reaches the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.  2015 – Two suicide bombers detonated explosives in Bourj el-Barajneh, Beirut, killing 43 people and injuring over 200 others.

 2017 – The 7.3 Mw Kermanshah earthquake shakes the northern Iran–Iraq border with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). At least 410 people were killed and over 7,000 were injured.

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MEMBERSHIP AND DATE OF JOINING

Hugh Midyette* 7/59 Dan Giro* 8/11 8/11 Tom Caroon* 5/75 Bill Manger* 2/12 2/12 Jack Mason* 6/75 Pappy Khouri* 6/12 6/12 Jim Ragan* 6/75 John Barlow* 3/14 3/14 Paul Miller* 10/95 Tony Santore* 8/14 8/14 Faye Bond Honorary Charles Stackhouse* 9/14 9/14 Sally Belangia* 10/97 Larry Gracie* 2/15 2/15 Jim Berry* 7/98 Bill Wheeler* 2/15 2/15 Joe Valinoti* 2/99 Branson Dunn* 4/15 4/15 Doug Carmichael* 6/99 Jan Elisabeth Mosca* 9/16 9/16 Sherrill Styron* 1/02 Jim Ross 10/16 10/16 John Mitchell* 7/04 Bill Miles* 3/17 3/17 Sam Myers* 6/05 Phyllis Yodlowski* 6/17 6/17 Tim Fowler* 2/06 Cathy Santore* 6/17 6/17 Charles Skinner* 10/06 Bob Webster 10/17 10/17 Chris Mathewson* 8/07 Sherri Hicks 12/17 12/17 Marc Kaplan* 9/07 Barry Monk 12/17 12/17 Warren Funk* 12/07 Wally Umbach* 12/17 12/17 Carl Monell* 2/09 Ned Brodeur 7/18 7/18 Debora Steenson* 3/09 Jim Kellenberger 7/18 7/18 George Steenson* 3/09 Leslie Kellenberger 7/18 7/18 Wyatt Cutler* 3/10 Ed Yodlowski* 2/11 Tom Stone* 8/11 (EA) Excused *Paul Harris Fellow Absence

2018-2019 OFFICERS and BOARD OF DIRECTORS President: John Barlow President-elect: Dan Giro Secretary: Tony Santore Treasurer: Bill Manger Sergeant-at-Arms: Wyatt Cutler Membership: John Mitchell Club Services: Cathy Santore, Public Relations: Branson Dunn Community Service: Dan Giro Foundation: Tim Fowler International Services: Pappy Khouri Youth Services: Larry Gracie Immediate Past President: George Steenson

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IF YOU MUST…request an excused absence (EA) or resign, then please submit the EA request or resignation in writing and give it to Secretary Tony Santore; or mail it to the club at PO Box 205, Oriental NC 28571. If a member resigns and the information is not received by the Secretary, then the club must continue to pay the member dues to the District, RI, and the cost of The Rotarian magazine. Treasurer Bill sends a letter or email to you, the member, confirming the excused absence or resignation and notifies you of any outstanding balance. Excused absences may be approved for up to one year before reconsideration. If you are in need of an extended medical absence, then consideration will be given on a case by case basis.

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