Pictured are Program Chairperson Hugh Hadden (left) and Scott Hoover.

Scott Hoover presented a PowerPoint presentation about the Shakers to the Tipp City Rotary Club at their January 18^th meeting.  He explained their origin and where they settled in the United States along with the impact they made in our country.  Pictured are Program Chairperson Hugh Hadden (left) and Scott Hoover.  The Tipp City Rotary Club meets each Wednesday in the basement of the Monroe Township building in historic downtown Tipp City.

Pictured are Program Chairperson Kevin Guigou and Paul Leonard (right).

Former Dayton Mayor and Ohio Lt. Governor Paul R. Leonard, was the speaker at the Wednesday January 11^th, 2012 Tipp City Rotary Club’s meeting.  Mr. Leonard discussed “the state of politics” in this Presidential election year.  He noted that college students are woefully lacking in proper primary and secondary education about government, and especially the American political system.  He criticized the United States Supreme Court decision in  ”Citizens United,” which has opened the floodgates for the flow of money into political campaigns.  Finally, he explained the impact of redistricting of congressional and state legislative districts on the 2012 elections.  Mr. Leonard is currently a professor of Political Science at Wright State University.  Pictured are Program Chairperson Kevin Guigou and Paul Leonard (right).

Pictured are Dr. Randy Overbeck and Program Chairperson Andrew Venters (right).

Dr. Randy Overbeck was the speaker at the November 30^th, 2011 Tipp City Rotary Club meeting.  Dr. Overbeck is the former Superintendent from the Xenia school system and author of the book “Leave No Teacher Behind.”  His fiction book is about a heroic teacher, and during his presentation he highlighted several other real world heroic teachers.  His publishing company, Heroic Teacher Press, is sponsoring an Heroic Teacher of the Year Award, nomination forms and information are available at www.heoricteacherpress.com.  Pictured are Dr. Randy Overbeck and Program Chairperson Andrew Venters (right).

Dr Bill Gabel (left) and Mike Pullins.

Mike Pullins, Urbana Rotarian, was Tipp City’s Rotary Club speaker on November 23rd, 2011. Mike described how farmers in the area donated one acre of their corn crop to support the Rotary Program to eradicate Polio from the world. More than two billion children have been inoculated leaving only four countries reporting Polio cases; Afghanistan Pakistan, India, and Nigeria. Rotarians will continue this effort until the goal is reached, and Polio is eradicated world wide. Pictured are: Dr Bill Gabel (left) and Mike Pullins.

Stephen Heap presented at the November 16, 2011 Tipp City Rotary Club meeting. Steve is a career missionary to Brazil, having first gone there in 1974. A while back he was asked by some of the his friends from college to participate in riding Harley/Davidson motorcycles from the southern tip of South America to Oklahoma City, 10,000 miles. It was an incredible trip filled with adventure and the near death of one of the men, who had to be careflighted to Brazil. More information can be found at www.mileswithamission.org.  Pictured are Stephen Heap and Program Chairperson Bob Freeman (right).

Pictured are Program Chairperson Steve Bruns (left) and Bobby Phillips.

Bobby Phillips, retired police officer with 28 years of service, spoke at the October 26, 2011 Tipp City Rotary Club meeting about State Issue 2.  He explained the reasons why our elected officials passed this bill that since has been put in front of the voters as a referendum in the November election.  Pictured are Program Chairperson Steve Bruns (left) and Bobby Phillips.

Pictured left is Bradley Warkentine, Gene Luther, and the spider was brought back from Peru as a memento.

Bradley Warkentine, 2011-2012 Tipp City Rotary Club President, and Gene Luther, a Tipp City resident and retired engineer, shared about a Work and Witness Program they participated in Peru in 2010 with the Tipp City Rotarians at their September 14 meeting. They were part of a team of sixteen members from the Tipp City Church of the Nazarene which built two parsonages on the outskirts of Iquitos, Peru. The parsonages were built in very poor neighborhoods. Iquitos is a city of 400,000 located in the middle of the Amazon. The city is only accessible by water or plane. They also shared about a side trip the team took to Machu Picchu, the famed Inca city located at the top of the Andes mountains.  Pictured left is Bradley Warkentine, Gene Luther, and the spider was brought back from Peru as a memento.

Pictured are Father Hank Albietz and Program Chairperson Sarah Worley.

Father Hank Albietz from the Williamsburg Rotary Club spoke about his International Service Project in Romania at the August 31, 2011 Tipp City Rotary Club meeting.  Father Albietz is collecting funds to insulate the walls of a 58 bed dormitory for physically and mentally handicapped persons in Romania.  Many District 6670 Rotary Clubs have already supported this project, and the Tipp City Rotary Club pledged its support at the meeting.