The 4 Way Forum
August 4, 2009 Volume 4 Number 5 Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Editor: Ed Bednar
Presider: Lynette Trout
Invocation: Darrell Gerke
Lead Songs: Paul Heimer
Guests: Daniel Maier
Tim Wentworth, Edward Epright, Speakers
Steven Stockwell, Lancaster Club
Happy Bucks:
Paul fined Prez Lynette for her picture in the paper.
Carol celebrated her granddaughter’s competition in
a contest.
Announcements:
Fran confirmed that the Brunch will be
held on November 8th and asked that
everyone mark that date and be a part of the event.
Fran announced that the Club will hold a new members’ social gathering during the first week of December at Loxley’s. The event will feature a cocktail hour with a cash bar. The purpose of the event is to introduce potential members to Rotary.
Fran ( aka Narf) received her Isaac’s Certificate.
Scott asked the Club to move the Food pantry morning to the third week this month, since he will be unavailable to take the food to the pantry since he will be on vacation.
Scott requested bail money from the Club members, in response to his incarceration to help fund MS research.
Lynette reminded everyone to RSVP regarding the Club Pool Picnic to be held at her parents’ home on Tuesday, August 18.
Patrick announced that the club had purchased a laptop computer which will be awarded in the Library’s Summer Literacy program.
Diane detailed Club plans to participate in the Susan Byrne Center Clean-up project on Thursday, August 27. This is an annual District project. A bus will leave Oak Leaf Manor North at 4:30pm and will return at approximately 8:30pm. A very nice lunch is served before the cleaning begins. There are many chores to be done. Some are not very strenuous, such as dusting the folding chairs. While others are more challenging, such as scaling the tall ladder and cleaning the blades on the ceiling fans. This task has been handled well by Ekreg Llerrad, of our Club in the past. Almost every club in the District was represented at last year’s clean-up. Our Club received credit for 8 volunteers which included the bus driver. We would like to fill the bus with 20 workers this year.
The Lancaster Hempfield Rotary Club Inducts
Two New Members
Eric Nissely (On left) and Dwayne Sollenberger (Center) were inducted into the Lancaster Hempfield Rotary Club.
Dwayne Sollenberger was a member of the Lancaster Sunrise Club and has transferred to our club. Dwayne joined Walz, Deihm CPAsin October 2008 as a manager in the audit division. He strives to provide “accurate, helpful and efficient” audits, based on strong and continuous client interaction, thorough planning, and staff training. He brings more than 10 years of experience to the firm, after serving in audit divisions for national and regional firms.
Dwayne has experience serving a diverse client base, including hospitals, pharmaceuticals, other health care organizations, a private equity fund, software developers, manufacturers, insurance, and more, ranging from $10 million of annual sales to over $5 billion. Amidst this broad base, his consistent area of expertise has revolved around inventory, start-up companies and first-time audits, and mergers and acquisitions. He also has extensive experience with audits of employee benefit plans.
Dwayne and his wife Celeste have two children, Braelynn and Thunder, and recently relocated back to Pennsylvania after living in Atlanta, GA.He graduatedfrom Manheim Central High School and Messiah College and has served in numerous positions within his church. He is an avid baseball fan and enjoys water-skiing with his family.
Eric Nissley currently manages the Columbia Avenue branch of Fulton Bank where he is responsible for the daily performance of the branch as well as consumer and business lending. Previously he was the branch loan and operations manager at the Gap office. He graduated from Juniata College in 1998 with a BA in Business management and communication. He has been a volunteer for Big Brothers since 2004. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge #665 as well as a volunteer instructor for Junior Achievement.
Program: Tim Wentworth retired former owner
of Wentworth Publishing, told of a breakfast
program which began fourteen years ago with a handful of homeless men and has grown to a weekly event which provides breakfast for nearly 100 persons each week at 8:00 am on Sunday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster. Many homeless families are included in the count each week. The program is lay volunteer driven. Approximately 20 church members acquire and prepare the meal. Cosco’s and Darrenkamp Foods contribute the various food items served at the breakfast. Many of the participants live at the Water Street Mission.
Several years ago, Tim and a fellow parishioner noted that many of the persons who attended the breakfast were also interested in the spiritual side of life. Tim and his colleague now present a short spiritual program each Sunday and nearly 50% of the participants stay for this portion of the breakfast program.
Tim is clearly a person dedicated to ‘service above self’
The meeting was adjourned at 8:20 a.m.