March 5, 2010  Volume 89, Number 36

ROTARY'S FOUR 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?"

March - Literacy Month

OPENING

This week's greeters were Cony Andrea Campbell and Lee Means. President Jan Hartzell  thanked Johannes Goddik for setting up the room for the weekly meeting, along with Lee Means and Cony Andrea Campbell for being this week's greeters. Chuck Pattishall gave the Inspirational Moment, a thoughtful parable about how God puts us in all each other's lives to impact one another in some way. The Pledge of Allegiance was then led by Carol Benedict.

VISITING ROTARIANS AND GUESTS

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

Richard Weed read a letter from RICKEY BODLE, who is spending a year in Chile as one of our Outbound Exchange Students. In the aftermath of the recent earthquake there, RICKEY will be assisting a Rotary Club with the distribution of emergency supplies to zones that were hard-hit by the 8.8 temblor. Nice going, Rickey! (*See details below)

Jan Hartzell reminded members that they are encouraged to participate in a new project being chaired by President-Elect Bruce Dickson. It is a "Long Range Planning" project, designed to assess the future direction of the McMinnville Rotary Club. Persons who are interested should contact Bruce at drbrucedickson@mac.com .

STUDENTS OF THE MONTH

 

Kris Olsen presented the current Students-of-the-Month at McMinnville High School, KARLI OLSEN and ADAM BROWN. A brief detail biography of the two students, who were recognized as Winter Scholar Athletes below.

 

MAIN EVENT

 

Maryalice Russell stepped up to the podium to announce the program, a presentation on MACA (McMinnville Arts & Communications Acadamy) and the Oregon Small Schools Intiative. Following a brief introduction, she invited DUNCAN WYSE, President of the Oregon Business Council and Interim Executive Director, to the microphone to talk about the programs. DUNCAN began by thanking the club for its support, Charlie Walker for his contributions in the Chalkboard program, and KARLI OLSEN for her involvement with the Small Schools Initiative in Salem as Oregon's student representative

 

Since its creation in 2004, the Oregon Small Schools Intitiative has become the largest high school reform demonstration project in Oregon history. During the past six years, more than 25,000 students across the state have had high school experiences uniquely characterized by personalized learning, relevant coursework, and a high level of rigor in classroom instruction. In particular, significant improvement has been shown in the areas of mathematics and reading. With the ultimate goal of achieving 100% graduation, the Initiative is designed to prepare 40% of it graduates for 4-year degrees, 40% for 2-year degrees, and 20% as being "career ready" upon completion of the program.

 

DUNCAN then invited BARB GIBBS, Executive Director of the Meyer Memorial Trust, to come to the podium and discuss their participation in the Initiative. According to BARB, the Meyer Trust awards approximately $30 million dollars per year to the Small School Initiative, which includes the MACA program here in McMinnville. BARB acknowledged the work of LAURIE COOPER, current Principal of MACA, for the outstanding job she has done with the Acadamey. BARB followed by inviting two MACA students, JASMIN SELDONA and MARIAH CURREY, to come up and say a few words about their experiences with MACA.

JASMINE spoke about the great opportunities that have been provided through her enrollment at MACA. Her focus has been on programs designed to focus on the needs of the growing Latino population in the area. MARIAH mentioned that the atmosphere and culture of learning present at MACA has been very rewarding. In her words, she has reached the top of her class at MACA instead of being a potential dropout in a mainstream institution.

 

 

DUNCAN WYSE then returned to the podium to conclude the program. He encouraged the membership to continue its support of MACA and, by virtue of doing so, the Oregon Small Schools Intiative. Following the program, Jan Hartzell invited DUNCAN to sign a book for the Oregon Early Readers Program at the McMinnville Library.

CLOSING

In a final announcement, Steven Battaglia apologized for the absence of dessert. Apparently, the employee responsible for bringing the dessert was ill.

Next week: Todd Casebeer will give his vocational, and we will also get reports from our two current Inbound Students, Cony and Auf

 

 

MESSAGES FROM RICKEY

The following communications are a series of emails from Rickey Bodle, our student in Chile

Feb 24: I finally got a new host home. My host family owns 3 schools and we live right in the "backyard" of the one that I'll be attending. It is sort of worrisome because my host mother is the director and the family also owns it. My host brother may even be my P.E. teacher. (On top of that, we think he may be the Rotary Club president here.) They have a full tennis court, pool, jacuzzi, weight room, game room, and all sorts of stuff. Their house is HUGE and especially huge for a Chilean home. Tomorrow the exchange students here and I are planning on doing a movie day here. The family is extremely nice.

Anyways, here is the address:

Calle Portales 1650

La Ligua, Quita Regi—n, Chile.

I'm about one and a half hours from Santiago and an hour from Vi–a where the family has a house. I'm planning my return date for the 10-17 of June. It coincides with when my new host dad will be going to the World Cup in South Africa and the Rotary here just told us we have to be out before the 30th of June . . . so all I need is your permission for the final sign off of my return date.

March 1: I'm about 150 kilometers northwest from Santiago. It takes about an hour to get there by car, but due to one of the roads falling down, we don't know if we are able to get to Santiago (it now sounds like it though) and even if we can, I don't know if the cars have enough gas (and we cannot get more in La Ligua). If we are unable to go to Santiago then that means supplies are unable to get to us. There are currently no buses coming or leaving though so that probably isn't that great of a sign. I should be fine though. My family is pretty ready for the no water situation. We have 4 jugs and we will use the pool water for the bathrooms. We just won't be able to shower and will have to watch how much water we drink. The only worry we have is if another big quake hits and a tsunami comes. We live really close to the ocean and had a long discussion about what we'll do. Yesterday my host dad had the car ready to leave due to us having fewer aftershocks but the ones we do have being strong (4-6 on the Richter scale). Even if I weren't going to be OK, nothing could be done. I'm fine though. I think we should try and go buy more water, but my host family thinks we'll have enough. 2 weeks without water isn't really an ideal situation though.

March 2: We just got electricity back yesterday at 1:30am. Most of Chile has the electricity back. And we just got internet back this morning. My host dad had a special thing from Claro which gave his computer access to the internet while most couldn't use it.

I just talked with Leonel's (another exchange student) host brother and their town had more damage than mine. Same size quake, but thankfully my town had a quake a few years back and all the buildings fell down -- so they were rebuilt for a quake.

There really isn't much danger here as long as we just stay put in La Ligua. It probably won't be smart to go driving around. Most of the damage happened in Concepci—n and the towns which got hit by tsunamis.

March 5: Tomorrow I will be headed to Talca with Rotary to deliver needed supplies to those in need. Over the past week we all have been gathering clothes and food to send to the Rotary Club of Talca who will do the distribution to zones in need which still have yet to receive aid. I am proud to say that I am able to be a part of this effort and so Rotary asked me if I would want to go with them to one of the worst hit tsunami zones so as to deliver what has been gathered. I will be leaving tomorrow morning at 5am. I will only be there for 1 day, but I thought that you all should know where I will be at and what I'll be doing. I'll make sure to write you all about the damage and hopefully be able to send photos of what occurred.

Thank you all for the support,

Rickey Bodle

STUDENTS OF THE MONTH DETAIL

President Jan Hartzell and fellow Rotarians, it's my pleasure to introduce to you one of McMinnville High School's student-of-the-month for February, senior Karli Olsen, representing Winter Scholar-Athletes.

Karli is the daughter of Kris and Susan Olsen. She has a younger sister, Molly, an 8^th grader at Patton Middle School.

Karli attended Memorial Elementary and Patton Middle School before enrolling at McMinnville High School in her freshman year.

Karli currently holds a 3.90 grade point. She has a combined SAT score of 2040. She has been on honor roll each semester throughout her high school career, and is on track to receive her Honors Diploma and Pathway Endorsement in Journalism and Health Services, as well as be recognized as a salutatorian at graduation. This semester, she is enrolled in Yearbook, French IV, Health II, Advanced Placement Calculus, Advanced Placement English - Literature and Composition, Microbiology, Advanced Placement Psychology, and Yearbook Production.

While in high school, Karli has been very active in our women's basketball and softball programs for all four years. She was most recently recognized as the girl's basketball News Register athlete-of-the-week, and is a member of the three time defending Pacific Conference Championship softball team. She is a member of the National Honor Society, Editor-in-Chief of our school's Yearbook, President of the Key Club, Link Crew Leader, Model United Nations Club member, Relay for Life, and Young Life member.

Outside of school, Karli serves as the Student Advisor to the Oregon State Board of Education in Salem, representing over 50,000 school-aged students in Oregon. Additionally, she'll be travelling to Washington, D.C. tomorrow, having been selected as the United States Senate Youth Program ambassador for Oregon.

Her future plans include application to Duke, Notre Dame, Northwestern, Gonzaga, University of Portland, and the Honors College at Oregon State University, where she plans to major in Biology - Pre Medicine, and/or Political Science - Public Policy.

When asked about her favorite memories of high school, she talked about her freshman year when friends from both Patton and Duniway came together at MHS, and of course the many games just being in the stands decked out in her "grizzly gear."

Her worst memories of high school, the B she received second semester of her freshmen year in Biology, and losing to North Medford Black Tornado in last year's semi-final game in softball.

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President Jan Hartzell and fellow Rotarians, it's my pleasure to introduce to you one of McMinnville High School's student-of-the-month for February, senior Adam Brown, representing Winter Scholar-Athletes.

Adam is the son of Dan and Shirley Brown. He has an older brother, Cory, a 2003 graduate of McMinnville High School and current United States Air Force pilot.

Adam attended St. James Elementary and Duniway Middle School before enrolling at McMinnville High School in his freshman year.

Adam currently holds a 3.60 grade point average. He has a combined SAT score of 1660. He has been on honor roll each semester throughout his high school career, and is on track to earn his Honors Diploma at graduation. This semester, he is enrolled in Weightlifting, Culinary Arts, Aerobics, Advanced Placement Calculus, Introduction to Fiction - a college credit course, Anatomy and Physiology, United States Government, Advanced Placement Biology, and is a student aide in our P.E. Department.

While in high school, Adam has been very active in our school's football, wrestling, and track programs for all four years. He is the current wrestling team captain and track pole vault captain. He will be one of a very few student-athletes who will be recognized this spring as a four-year three sport athlete. He is a member of the National Honor Society, Doernbecher Club, Model United Nations Club, and Habitat for Humanity.

Outside of school, Adam is a Relay for Life captain, umpires for McMinnville Youth baseball and softball, is involved at the St. James Parish, and enjoys all types of outdoor activities and sports.

His future plans include application to Western Oregon State University and Oregon State University, where he would like to major in Human Biology or Marine Biology. His hope to enter officer training school at the United States Air Force Academy to one day be a pilot.

When asked about his favorite memories of high school, he talked about the Mr. Mac High event in support of Doernbecher Children's Hospital our school sponsors each year.

His worst memories of high school, taking 4^th place at the Pacific Conference District Wrestling Championships the past two years missing out on an opportunity to wrestle at State.

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