President Bob Flautt opened the meeting by leading the Pledge of Allegiance and leading the club in a patriotic song. Prior to giving the Invocation, Bob Mange asked for a moment of silence in honor of former Rotarian Stan Gisler. Stan passed away on Wednesday, February 5. He was club president in 1979/1980. He was a member of the club until the late eighties.
We had several guests at the meeting as it was Teacher Grant night. Special guests included District Governor Ray Ward, District Governor Elect Brent Hastey, and Assistant Superintendent of the Folsom Cordova School District Kathryn Allaman.
Also attending the meeting was Emily Chandler who will be our outbound RYE student for 2020/2021. She was at the meeting with her parents and two other outbound students. Vicki Bencken and Rich Rider gave her a message from the District RYE Committee telling her where she is going. Emily will be an exchange student in Brazil.
Rich Rider, Vicki Bencken, and Emily Chandler
President Bob announced that Al Stehli has been a member of Rotary for 50 years this month. He also asked for sign-ups for Wine and Dine committees.
District Governor Ray said that his visit tonight was a second official visit as District Governors were requested to attend more than one meeting at each club in the district. He said there will be an Awards Dinner and Youth Fund-raiser on May 16. The district is also having Rising Against Hunger Packing Event on April 18.
Bob Mange introduced the teachers who received grant checks at the meeting. See the article below for information on the teacher grants.
2020 Teacher Grants
At the Rotary Club of Folsom meeting on February 6, 17 teachers from Folsom schools received grants ranging from $150 to $500. Bob Mangeintroduced each teacher who was at the meeting. Sonny Da Marto, of the Rotary Club of Folsom Lake and Ray Ward, Rotary District 5180 District Governor, presented the checks to each teacher. The teachers then told us their grade level and a little about what they were doing with the grant.
Teachers with Bob Mange standing on the right.
One of the teachers receiving the One of the teachers explaining
check from District Governor her project.
Ray Ward.
The Rotary Teacher Grant program started as a club project 23 years
ago. Each year we send out applications to all the Folsom schools and encourage teachers to apply for a grant to fund a project, materials and/or equipment for their class or classes. The grants started out with a maximum of $250 but thanks to the generosity of our members, this will be the fifth year that our grants have been offered up to $500. Having the Rotary Club of Folsom Lake join with us again this year made it possible to provide a total of $7,500 in grants. To date, including tonight, Folsom Rotary has provided 310 teachers with grants totaling just under $80,000.00. This year we had 33 teacher applications from 10 schools and were able to fund 17 Grants.
The teachers who received grants this year from the Rotary Club of Folsom and Rotary Club of Folsom Lake and their projects were:
Kristina Cameron - Natoma Station Elementary, $269.32, Hands on STEM
Melissa Wolking - Oak Chan Elementary, $400, Science/Engineering keyboards
Abigail Wever - Oak Chan Elementary, $500, Flexible seating
Cameron Evans - Sutter Middle, $500, People and Planet Escape Room
