President Brandon opened the meeting at 12:26 pm and Donna Haar led the Pledge and Prayer.
ATTENDANCE:
- Members - 30 members were in attendance which represents 37.5 % of our membership of 80 people.
- Guests of the Club - 5 students of the Month for January
- We also had a guest from Steve Plumlee's company.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
- Brandon (from Barb Rupp) - the volunteers who helped decorate the gazebo or ANY other Rotarians are asked to help tear down this Saturday am at 8:00 am. Meet at the commercial Bldg downtown. This should not take long.
- Warren Risk - we are looking for someone or a couple someones to take over the RotaGram. I will show folks how to do it and be available if they need assistance. It is not all that time consuming and it is a good way to stay up on Club happenings. This will NOT include management of the website, only the RotaGram. Please contact Warren if interested or if you have questions.
STUDENTS OF THE MONTH INTRODUCTIONS: Each of the 5 students present introduced themselves to the group.
JANUARY BIRTHDAY WHEEL: two Rotarians with January birthdays spun the birthday wheel.
PROGRAM: Shanna Hollich - Director of the Guthrie Memorial Library.- Classification Speech
One of our newer members, Shanna Hollich, gave her classification speech and told us a bit about herself. Here are so things we learned.
Shanna was born in Germany where her father was in the U.S. military later worked for the Dept of Defense. She was there with her family for 3 months but due to circumstances there she was not able to obtain dual citizenship. They returned to the U.S. to live in Annville, Lancaster, Co. where she spent her early years.
She said she was always a good student and involved in school activities like sports & music. She attended and graduated from Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.where she graduated with a degree in Philosophy and Linguistics. She decided against going for a PhD and moved to Pittsburgh where she was a legal assistant for a short time still trying to determine what she wanted to do. While at home she ran across a poster that she made when she was in Kindergarten where she had written "When I grow up I want to be a librarian". So she listened to her 5 year old self. After a short stint in Va she obtained a Masters of Library Degree from Rutgers Univ.
Shanna has worked at every library level from private & public school libraries to Wilson College & now to Guthrie.
Shanna lives in Gettysburg with her husband and dogs and cats. She is a professional musician playing the French Horn and Trumpet. She likes knitting and crocheting and of course reading. She is also pursuing a second Masters degree, this time in data management. She also does on-line teaching in copyrighting.
Shanna likes to keep busy and is looking forward to getting involved in Rotary. She appreciates all the support Rotary has given to the library in the past. She made a very good presentation which generated several questions from the members.
NEXT WEEK'S PROGRAM: Kristin Warner - Rotary Classification Speech