The meeting was called to order by club president, Jim Sawin. Guests were recognized and included Arne van der Heyde and John Schulan from the Fairlawn Rotary Club. Jim shared that Rick Fisher agreed to be the head of the Golf Outing Committee. Our golf outing is scheduled for Friday, June 8 at Brookside. Vic Meyers shared he was interviewed by Summa and will be on their website and Facebook page regarding his positive experience with their cancer center. Denny Liddle said he received the information that the new CFO of the Barberton Community Foundation, Jane Litz will be applying for membership in our club.
We welcomed and inducted as a new member Kamelia Fisher. Kamelia is the Executive Director of Summit Artspace, her sponsor is Selena Myers.
Our speaker was Arne van der Heyde with the Fairlawn Rotary Club. Arne presented a follow up report on their clubs recent international project -2 fiber optic endoscopes, used in Chile as a diagnostic aide following cleft palate repair. Our club contributed $2000 to this project along with the Fairlawn Club and a Rotary club in Chile. The fiber optic endoscopes are used as an aide to diagnose speech problems after cleft palate repair. Recipients post cleft palate surgery have improved facial features but are often left with the inability to speak clearly. The endoscope helps to not only see the cause of the speech problems but the resulting diagnostic photos can be stored in a file for reference.
Arne along with fellow club member, John Shulan spoke of another District 6630 project their club is working on and they are requesting our assistance. They are the sponsor of a new astronomy observatory at the Bath Nature Preserve. This observatory will be ADA accessible and on clear sky nights will be open to all. Their club is $8000 short of their goal and would like to apply for a District grant, however they have recently applied for one, so are not eligible. They are asking us to make the application, ( as suggested by the District 6630 Grants committee). Jim suggested the grant info and project info be emailed to him so our board can discuss and advise their club. Arne indicated this was time sensitive as the next District Grants meeting is at the beginning of February.