The Dearborn Rotary X-Ray - The Rotary Club of Dearborn

February 9, 2012
The Dearborn Rotary X-Ray
The Dearborn Rotary
X-Ray
Thursday’s Meeting Summary
President John Artis opened
the meeting with the singing of the
National Anthem.
Rotarian Rick Enright’s Invocation
recognized Youth Month, personal
development of youth, and importance of “service above self”.
President John Artis shared that
he is the youngest of six children,
with a 22-year age spread, and has
sister-in-laws that regularly remind
him about his behavior growing
up.
Rotarian Jim Thorpe introduced
this week’s guests and they included: Tim and Lucy Peck
(daughter of Hugh Archer), Hussein
Abdallah (Hugh Archer Memorial
Scholarship honoree), Saleh Abdallah (his mother), two representatives of Spiratex Corporation Past
District Governor Roberto Sanchez
and Robert Racey, President.
(company Hugh Archer founded),
Chuck Baughman (Dearborn High
School Principal), and Rasmus
Johnsen (our exchange student
from Denmark). Announcements
included:
Rotary Club of Dearborn was
featured Rotary Club of the week
in Rotary Club of Sunbury, Australia, weekly periodical. Sunbury is
29 km northwest of Melbourne in
the State of Victoria. Each week
Sunbury Club spotlights a different
Rotary Club in their periodical.
President John Artis received an email from Sunbury Club notifying
us of this honor.
President John Artis read a letter
from Andrea Awada, mother of
Amanda Amen, our Sisson Scholarship honoree. Letter extended
gratitude to President John as an
educator, Rotary members, and
particularly selection committee
(Rotarians Bob Ziolkowski, Jim
Thorpe, Marsha Koet, Darlene
Schoolmaster, and Jim Ives).
Amanda’s family will sponsor a
table at this year’s Share’s and
Cares Breakfast.
Program for this week’s meeting
was the awarding of the Hugh M.
Archer Memorial Scholarship.
Rotarian Lee Hollmann, chairman
of The Hugh M. Archer Memorial
Scholarship committee, introduced
audience to who was the late Hugh
Archer. He was described as a
husband and father, Dearborn
Rotarian for 54 years, Club President, District Governor, President
of Rotary International, plus an
extensive professional and volunteer service life. Hugh Archer was
an engineer, attorney, scientist,
and inventor.
Annual Hugh Archer Golf Outing
and Fundraiser and Spiratex Corporation support this scholarship.
This is the sixth scholarship
awarded. Each year the scholarship has been increased $500.
Criteria for Archer Scholarship
were then described by Lee. This
year’s 28 applicants all wrote essays on the application of the
Rotary 4-Way Test. Student’s academic achievement, community
service, honors, and other awards
were also reviewed. Lee and the
other two committee members,
Rotarians Bill Hultgren and Joe
Hallissey, unanimously agreed on
first ballot of the winner of this
year’s $4,000. scholarship.
Hussein Abdallah from Dearborn
High School was the winner. Pam
Philips, Counselor, at Dearborn
High, wrote a beautiful application
letter for Hussein, describing that
he was a lot like Hugh Archer in
business, personal interaction, and
science.
Archer Scholarship winner, Hussein, has a 4.24 GPA, is #3 out of a
Class of 354, has taken 10 AP
classes at Lawrence Tech, UMDearborn, and Henry Ford CC, and
has been involved in Interact Club,
and many service projects. Hussein
plans to attend Rensselaer Poly-
technic in Troy, New York, same
college that Hugh Archer attended.
Lucy Peck, daughter of Hugh
Archer, then spoke. She shared
that a small town high school
teacher saw potential in Hugh
Archer, and gathered seed or
scholarship money so that Hugh
could attend a good university.
Hugh Archer graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic in 1937 with a
degree in electrical engineering.
She spoke of his desire to “pay it
forward” after others had invested
in him as a youth.
Scholarship honoree, Hussein
Abdallah, spoke and wants to pay
it forward in the future, as Hugh
Archer did. He recognized the
“force behind the boy”, his parents.
Rotarian David Sample led the
50/50 Raffle. Winner of $30.00
was Rotarian Rick Goward. Rick
then donated proceeds to Dearborn Rotary Foundation.
Rotary Secretary Jack Mueller
introduced our newest Rotarian,
Jenna Martin from Lafontaine
Toyota, Business to Business Specialist. Secretary Jack Mueller
then awarded Rotarian Win Arneson his second Paul Harris Fellow
award. Jack shared with our guests
that Paul Harris was the founder of
Rotary and Rotary’s goals.
Rotarian Bob Gleichauf then
called our student guests forward
and had them re-introduce them-
selves to the Club.
President John Artis gave closing
comments for the meeting.
Mentioned Interact and Rotaract.
Rotary meeting ended in our
traditional manner with singing
of God Bless America.
Respectfully submitted,
David Anderson
Members in attendance :37
Guests including the students 20
Future Meeting
Duty Roster 02-16-12
Attendance
Jane Mueller
Greeter
Mary MacDonald
Guests and Visitors
Mary MacDonald
Invocation
David Anderson
X-Ray Editor
Israa Saffieddine
Future Meetings
2-16-12
Youth Exchange
Rasmus Johnsen
Young Scholarship Award
2-23-12
Youth Month
Students Run Meeting
3-01-12
VIP Day
Kerrie Peterson & Rick
Goward
3-08-12
Youth Exchange Students
3-15-12
No Meeting
St Paddy’s Party 3-16 at
Park Place 5:30PM—11PM
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Foundation Giving—Every Rotarian Every Year
The Rotary Foundation asks all Rotarians to consider giving at least $100 per year to support
the programs of The Rotary Foundation. This is the equivalent of $1.92 per week. Please send
your contributions to Jack Mueller, and we will post all those who have reached the $100 per
year below.
Win Arneson, Deanne Baker, Margaret Blohm, Joe Dickson, John and Mary Fish, , Morris
Goodman, Val Murphy Goodrich, Rick Goward, Omar and Maureen Guevara, Joe Hallissey,
Roger Hosn, Robert Huston, Diane & Jim Ives, Don Karcher, Aldo Martin, Marjorie
McCann in memory of PP Jim McCann, Roger Miller, Jack and Jane Mueller, Frank Padzieski, Bob Putnam, Colette Richards, Merritt Robertson, Rick Ruth, Dave Sample, Darlene
Schoolmaster, Israa Safieddine, John Snyder , Jim Thorpe, Ray Trudeau
Our Club has pledged $7700.00 for the new Rotary year, and any contributions will be greatly
Announcements

this year’s upcoming event,
members were asked to sponsor tables early since the number of tables is limited to 15.
Dearborn Rotary is looking
for Committee members.
Please review your Rotary
Directory and see if there is
a Committee you would like
to join. Contact President
John.

Ray Trudeau still has Children
of the Dump bracelets available. Please let him know if you
would like one, ten, or a box.

“Shares and Cares breakfast”
will be held at the Fairlane
Club Grille on March 30. For

See Amy Bazzy or Majed Rizk
to volunteer. Planning meeting this Monday, 2-13-2012,
at 5:30 P.M., at Leo’s Coney
Island, Ford and Greenfield
Roads, Dearborn

St. Patrick’s Day party March
16th at Park Place. No noon
meeting on the 15th.
District 6400 Conference, is
coming up May 31 to June 3,
2012 at Kalahari Resorts, in
Sandusky, Ohio. See Rotary
District 6400 website. President John Artis has lots of
information regarding District Conference and has a
daughter, son-in-law, and
grandchild planning to attend. Dearborn Rotarians are
encouraged to attend and
family members are welcomed.
On February 23rd Rotary Will be 107 Years Old
Everyone is INVITED TO come to the Dearborn Performing Arts Building on February 23rd.
Beverages will be supplied. Asking for everyone to bring a food dish that reflexes your heritage.
There is no cost to register and attend!!
For more information, go to www-rotary6400.org
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Today’s Meeting Pictures
Chairman Lee and Ae4cher Scholarship winner
Hussein Abdallah
Archer Scholarship Chairman PP Lee Hollmann
The pinning of new member Jenna Martin by
President John Artis
Hugh Archer’s daughter Lucy Peck congratulates
Archer scholarship recipient Hussein Abdallah
Archer scholarship recipient Hussein Abdallah,
Spiratex Bob Racey and Bob Sanchez and
Youth Month students
school officials
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The Dearborn Rotary
An Opportunity to Meet the President
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Shares and Cares Breakfast (A Presidential Chaser)
Join us after the Literacy dinner on the 29th by attending the
Shares & Cares breakfast at the Fairlane Club Oak Room.
Working with Pro Literacy Detroit to help make someone’s life
easier by giving the gift of reading.
Friday March 30th
Time: 7:30 am-9:00am
Table Sponsorships are available at $100 each.
Details to follow next week.