President's Message August 2012
Boy how a month flies by!! It seems like only a few days ago where we were all celebrating Independence Day and whining about the heat. Now here we are heading into August and getting ready for the kids to go back to school. It has been quite a month for our club, too!
Doug Kuczynski, vice president of sales and health care market leader of mutual health services at Medical Mutual of Ohio recently presented a check for $100,000 to Mike Wojno, president of Akron Rotary Camp for Children with Special Needs, and Rennick Andreoli to help with the building of the new Great Hall. I am excited about this recreation and resource center which is “the last piece of the camp’s facilities rebuilding and transformation project.” Just like Rotary International being “this close” to curing polio. I feel like we are “this close” to completing this project, but that last step is a big one and though this contribution was huge, more work is in front of us.
Pictured L-R: Bill Manby Jr., President of The Rotary Club of Akron; Mike Wojno, President of the Board of The Rotary Camp; Doug Kuczynski, Vice President, Sales and Healthcare Market Leader, Medical Mutual; Rennick Andreoli, RDA Hotel Management; John Garofalo, Vice President Community Investment, Akron Community Foundation.
We had an inspirational presentation from Major Dave Dunham on the Salvation Army and added 4 more members to our club.
Having the ability to do a meeting at Portage Country Club was also fortunate and feedback is being solicited, as we consider this as a potential home for our club’s meetings, in the future. I want you each to know that your disappointment with Woman’s City Club is not being ignored. We’ve had a fairly long and good history with them, and many of our members still maintain that type of relationship, so things like this take a little time and need to be handled carefully. What we all want is a location and food that makes us want to come each week and bring others to enjoy themselves. Most feel that has been a tough task and have asked us to try to fix that.
We are also seeing more and more about our club, it’s projects and our members in print, online and being discussed throughout the community. I encourage each of you to get involved and I appreciate those of you who have taken the time to post updates, forward along stories or just take a moment to “like” us on facebook. I also appreciate those who have taken the time to update their directory page for clubrunner. If you don’t have a copy of yours, I bring them each week.
I hope each of you enjoy the remainder of your summer.
Bill Manby, Jr.
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