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Meeting ID: 989 441 809
Tuesday, January 11, 2022 at Noon via ZOOM
CHRISTINE FOWLER MACK
Akron Public Schools Superintendent
Born and raised in Akron and educated in Akron Public Schools (APS), Superintendent Christine Fowler Mack is an experienced school district leader whose first classroom experience was in the APS system as a teacher at Robinson Elementary School from 1989 – 1995. Following that, Fowler Mack was a student dean and teacher leader for two years in APS.
Named superintendent of Akron Public Schools in 2021, Christine Fowler Mack began her leadership of the 21,000 student system July 1. With more than 4,100 teachers and staff, APS budget stands at more than $565 million.
Between her first teaching position 32 years ago and her appointment as superintendent, Christine Fowler Mack’s experiences in the field of education led her to raise student achievement and graduation rates dramatically, and to increase community and parent engagement. Immediately before joining APS,
Fowler Mack was responsible for overseeing school accountability, portfolio management, and community engagement functions as chief portfolio officer at Cleveland Metropolitan School District (40,000 students.)
Before joining the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Christine Fowler Mack served the Cleveland Heights-University Heights School District as interim superintendent and assistant superintendent. She earned her Bachelor of Science and her Master of Arts degrees from the University of Akron and her superintendent’s license from Ashland University.
She is a Martha Holden Jennings Scholar and recipient of Summit County Leadership Academy’s Emerging Leader Award. Fowler Mack was also named Akron Public Schools Coach of the Year, recipient of the Heights Association of Black School Educators Award, and the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Schools Educational Leadership Award.
Additionally, Christine Fowler Mack is listed in Who’s Who Among Educators & Women in Leadership and is a 2019 Northeast Ohio Women Leading and Learning in STEM honoree. She is a graduate of the first cohort of the American Association of School Administrators and Howard University’s Urban Superintendent Program and participates in the National Coalition of State and District Chiefs for Change.
The 32nd annual Akron Rotary Chili Open Golf Classic is 30 days away! This is our Club’s annual major fundraiser to benefit and support our Akron Rotary Camp. The Chili Open represents 30% of the annual operating costs to the Rotary Camp’s annual budget. This ensures that no child is turned away from attending Camp for their family’s inability to pay.
This year’s event goal is $320,000, we have currently raised $204,000 - 64% of goal. With every Akron Rotarians help, we can meet this goal – it takes a village and you are our village! A very special thank you to those of you who have provided sponsorships, camperships, purchased and/or sold your raffle tickets and donated door prizes or auction items.
Since we aren’t meeting in-person you can easily provide your support by visiting www.chiliopen.net. Or reach out to us to see how you can help, our contact info is listed below.
Raffle Ticket Chairs, David Miller and Andrew Grover, have been very busy reaching out and promoting raffle ticket sales. It’s important to know that the VanDevere Bunch will donate the car for the raffle at no cost to the Chili Open but a minimum of $40,000 in ticket sales must be met. Your help is needed in promoting, purchasing and selling your raffle tickets. This is a very easy way to support the event.
Thank you in advance for helping us to make the Chili Open a continued success to support our campers and their families.
Our club members have been asked to sell a minimum of $200 in raffle tickets. Our goal for ticket sales is $60,000. Many Rotarians have had great success in selling tickets by sending an email solicitation to family, friends and business colleagues asking for their help in purchasing tickets. Thank you in advance to those of you who have sold tickets and those that are still selling.
Since we aren’t meeting in-person, please mail or drop off your sold raffle tickets to Akron Rotary Camp (4460 Rex Lake Drive, Akron OH 44319), no later than Wednesday, January 26. If you need additional tickets let us know and we will get them to you ASAP. Tickets can also be purchased here.
Raffle tickets are $20 per ticket, each raffle ticket includes $25 in discounts:
Purchase two entrees and receive $15 off your bill at Lala’s on the Lakes, located on Manchester Road, Akron.
Raffle ticket prizes are:
1st prize is a 2022 Kia Forte LXS, or $16,000 cash payout - Thank you to The VanDevere Bunch!
2nd prize is a Goodyear Blimp Ride for two, courtesy of Wealth Impact Advisors – Thank you Rotarian Jim Redmond!
3rd prize is a LG 55” 4k Smart LED TV, courtesy of the S Group, Inc. – Thank you Rotarian Jeff Sheeks!
Everyone who purchases five (5) tickets for $100 will automatically be entered into the SNOWMANIA drawing for a chance to win $50,000. This is in addition to the five (5) chances for the car raffle drawing. For SNOWMANIA to go live, we need 6-inches of newly fallen snow accumulation on February 19, 2022 between 12:01am and 11:59pm at the Akron-Canton Airport, Ohio as independently determined by Weather Command. The qualifying winning ticket for SNOWMANIA will be drawn on Saturday, February 5, 2022 at the Chili Open. Winner need not be present.
If you have not returned your raffle tickets yet, please show your support and purchase them today. Thank you for helping us to meet our goal FORE the kids!
As we all know, with the increasing number of COVID cases, there has been an ongoing and growing need for effective COVID testing. When individuals travel to local emergency rooms at hospitals, the demand helps overwhelm available capacity.
As a result, several hospitals in the area, including Summa and Akron Children’s, have been cooperating with the Ohio Department of Health, the Summit County Public Health Department and the Ohio National Guard to create a drive-thru testing center at Summa’s Gorge Blvd. headquarters. The project is funded by the Ohio Department of Health.
With very little notice, a plan was developed to go live with this testing process on Tuesday, December 28th.
Local health systems are strained by in-hospital response to COVID. To run this testing, volunteers, approximately 15 a day, are needed for the next couple of months to support about a dozen National Guard and Summit County Health Department clinicians.
The testing is done outdoors on a drive-thru basis with National Guard and Summit County Health Department staff handling the “close in” work on swabbing and interacting with those driving through.
Volunteers are needed to help with traffic control and test kit assembly among other things.
Information concerning this was transmitted to our Club by Past Club President Rob McGregor on December 23, 2021. Through the good efforts of Dr. McGregor and District Governor Nominee Julie Brandle, this request for assistance was quickly circulated throughout the Summit Cluster of Clubs.
My spouse, Linda, and I were able to register for and take part in the drive thru testing center on Thursday, December 30, 2021. Summa personnel handled the orientation training and direct supervision of the volunteers. We were blessed with volunteers from Leadership Akron, Summa itself, and other organizations.
Over 800 individuals are being served each day at this site. While none of us are ever likely to have front-line response duties as a healthcare worker or first responder, it was gratifying to be able to help in a small way with this ongoing project.
2021-2022 District 6630 Governor Larry Lohman began his presentation with a little history of his introduction to Rotary from his father and his involvement with Rotary service project from a little boy forward. As he stated during his presentation, Lohman has grown up in the service of Rotary and his community. He helped his father’s Rotary Club (Cambridge, Ohio) with service projects and fundraisers. The Cambridge Club has had three generations of Larry's family as members, including his great-grandfather, a founding member of the club. Larry also served with The Boy Scouts of America where he earned his Eagle Scout Award, his Church Youth Group, and as a volunteer with the American Cancer Society.
He has been a member of The Rotary Club of Kent since 2007 and has served as International Services Chair, Program Director, President-Elect and President. He led the charge to identify ways to better inform the community about Rotary. During his presidency he developed a new club legacy award to honor members for their years of service. This award was first presented to Past District Governor Gordon Keller, and thereafter in his memory.
Larry has been very active with Rotary District 6630 for several years, so it should be no surprise that he is now our District Governor. He has been very involved with his Kent club in providing clean water systems to villages in El Salvador for over 20 years. Larry explained that his involvement with the water project came about after attending a Rotary delegation trip to El Salvador. He came to fully understand the importance of water and the global grants that make it possible. In 2019 Larry headed a water project in El Rodeo, El Salvador that brought clean water to a village of 65 families. The villagers never had clean running water and had been walking about one mile to obtain polluted water.
During his term as District Governor, Larry would like to focus on two specific areas. Those areas are Youth, and Publicity/social media awareness activities.
YOUTH:
Through his service with the Rotary Club of Kent, Larry brought a focus of Youth Services to his club which sponsored a new Interact Club and has begun participating in Rotary Youth Exchange. Larry headed up the revitalization of the Kent State University Rotaract Club.
He envisions creating a mentorship program between the Club, and local young professionals’ organizations. He would like to form an Alumni Association for individuals that are former members of Interact and Rotaract.
SOCIAL MEDIA/GETTING ROTARY’S NAME OUT THERE:
Larry believes that Rotary, and what Rotary is all about, isn’t communicated as effectively as it could be. Larry is proposing that the District Publicity Committee members be available to local Clubs to assist with social media events, including service projects by providing media assistance.
DG Lohman reminded Club Rotarians that the District Conference will be held at the Sheraton Suites in Cuyahoga Falls on April 22 and 23. He is encouraging the Club to conduct our weekly meeting at the Sheraton during the District Conference.
The District’s Membership committee is holding a Membership Roundtable Zoom meeting on 1/15/2022 at 10:00 a.m. The purpose of the meeting is to share ideas for membership recruitment, retention, etc. Individuals interested in attending can email Peter Tuttle at ptuttle@ptcdi.com to get a Zoom invite.
DG Lohman entertained questions from Club members after his presentation.
Our College & Career Academy Partner North High School is having an in-person Career Expo Thursday January 13th from 8:30am-11am. They are looking for professionals from the area of Entrepreneurship and Marketing (they already have a small business owner and social media marketing), or something in the area of technology, whether working on an actual system or designing apps/websites, etc. to represent and talk about their company to students.
I am looking for 1-2 volunteers in any of those spaces to help give some insight into potential careers to the North students.
Please email me at josephmariomicale@gmail.com to let me know if you’re interested and able to help with this ASAP.
Our Auction, will continue to be online this year. It will open for a week beginning on January 28, 2022 6pm and will conclude on February 5th at 1:30pm.
Text chiliopen22 to 76278 to register for the auction.
Your participation in Akron Rotary’s Chili Open Golf Classic presented by Wayne Homes will help serve more than 1,800 children and adults along with their families with a wide range of developmental and physical disabilities and mental health disorders through our day, overnight and year round respite camp programs.
At Rotary Camp, campers are provided the opportunity to experience traditional camping activities, develop relationships, learn life skills and create memories that last a lifetime. When campers leave Rotary camp at the end of each session, they not only leave with lifelong memories and friends, but they often show more independence as well as a greater understanding of themselves and their abilities.
Born and raised in Akron and educated in Akron Public Schools (APS), Superintendent Christine Fowler Mack is an experienced school district leader whose first classroom experience was in the APS system as a teacher at Robinson Elementary School from 1989 – 1995. Following that, Fowler Mack was a student dean and teacher leader for two years in APS.
2021-2022 District 6630 Governor Larry Lohman began his presentation with a little history of his introduction to Rotary from his father and his involvement with Rotary service project from a little boy forward. As he stated during his presentation, Lohman has grown up in the service of Rotary and his community. He helped his father’s Rotary Club (Cambridge, Ohio) with service projects and fundraisers. The Cambridge Club has had three generations of Larry's family as members, including his great-grandfather, a founding member of the club. Larry also served with The Boy Scouts of America where he earned his Eagle Scout Award, his Church Youth Group, and as a volunteer with the American Cancer Society.
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