Pledge: President Keith
Prayer: Gerri
Song: Bill M.
Brents Card Game Winner: Bob Antoniac
Sergeants Report: Glen Anderson
Raffle Winners: Charlie, Brent, Kathy Callinan
Happy Bucks: Keith was happy for the ability to be flexible about the order of the meetings, happy bucks for the students and guests, David was happy to announce we received a matching grant of $35K for Ghana.
High School Students of the Month (Physical Education)
Old Saybrook: James Condulis is at the top 10% of his class excelling at physics, anatomy and other sciences. He is enjoying an internship at the clinic and loves learning. He aspires to have a career in medicine and has been accepted at Northeastern U. majoring in chemistry.
Lyme-Old Lyme: Georgia Cummins is bright, outgoing and lights up a room with her outgoing personality. She enjoys working with special needs kids and will be attending Catholic U. in Washington DC majoring in nursing.
Westbrook: Ayla Toussaint is president of her chapter of SADD. She councels and advocates healthy living. She's a member of the Asset Team, Natn. Honor Society and is her class salutatorian. She will be attending Univ. of South Carolina.
Program: Josh Scherber
Josh is a senior at Old Saybrook High School and for his senior project took on the task of restoring an old cemetary located near the train station. The cemetary has fallen into disprepair and needed some TLC. Josh engaged friends, Mr. Tiezzi and family members to not only clean up overgrowth, he fixed and repainted signs and arranged to have a shed built, installed and stocked with tools thanks to a grant from the Lions Club. The shed was built by the Interact Club whose advisor is Amber Scherber, Josh's mom. The cemetary is the final resting place for many veterens of war going back to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, War of 1812 and more. Josh learned a lot about the towns history and with his excellent power point presentation, educated us as well. Ancesters of some locally well known names are buried there including Ingham, Acton, and Dibble. A dedication ceremony was held honoring veterans and about 25 people attended. Josh is a grandson of a Vietnam veteran and his great grandfather was a veteran of the Korean War.
We had a little time left so Keith talked about his business and some new technology he is involved in - 3D pictures and 3D printing. He uses vendors globally and has good results with Shapeways which is part of Ebay to get marketing and promotional materials made.
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