Governor Flanagan`s Tidbits

CARDINAL
DISTRICT NEWS
OF NOTE:
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Governor
Flanagan’s Tidbits
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Spring Meeting
Photos
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Summer Cardinal
District Convention
Registration Form
INSIDE THIS
ISSUE:
Governor
Flanagan’s Tidbits
1
Wheeling Civitan
Club Goes to the
Fair
2
Pioneer Ladies
Honor Special Education Teachers
3
Cardinal District
4
Spring Meeting Photos
Music and Memory
4
Summer Cardinal
5
District Convention
Hotel Information &
Registration
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Governor Flanagan’s Tidbits
You may ask yourself,
Why attend a Cardinal
District Meeting or Convention? I can honestly
tell you a primary reason
is that in my 40 years of
being a Civitan, I always
gain knowledge and learn
more about each Club
member that I meet. I
also gain fellowship, I
make a new friend in
Civitan as they tell me
about the service projects
that mean so much and do
so much good for their
respective communities. Leadership is also
displayed when they tell
you how much their volunteer work is appreciated, because it takes a
good leader to get the job
done.
This Civitan Year we
have focused on your individual club as we
brought in Louis Stephens
VP of Membership Leadership (louis@civitan.org)
if you wish to reconnect
or have a question. Louis
did a superb job of teaching our Clubs how to retain members, gain new
members and showed that
Civitans come from all
walks of life, but before
they join they must be
asked. He also emphasized that to make this
new member Civitan
Happy you must engage
them in your projects.
Many of our Cardinal District Clubs have taken this
seriously and have grown
their membership.
The Spring meeting was
held at The Blanchard
Center for Special Needs,
hosted by The Findlay
Civitan Club. We focused
again on your Club when
the Maumee Valley Club,
a club with a very diverse
group of members, presented the “Who! What!
When! and Why!” it takes
to build a club like theirs.
They are one of the largest
clubs in the District, and
they showed how they
retain their members by
keeping them involved in
each and every project.
On August 21-22, 2105
we will finish the year
with our grand finale with
the 2015 Cardinal District
Convention featuring The
President of Civitan International Jay Albertia from
Clarksville, Tennessee.
Jay and his family will be
our guests at The Historic
Blennerhassett Hotel in
beautiful downtown Parkersburg, West Virginia.
A welcome picnic and
social will be held at The
Belpre Civitan Clubhouse,
located directly across the
river from Parkersburg.
The event will be held
from 6-7:30pm. The picnic will be followed by a
two hour cruise on the
majestic Ohio River
aboard the Island Belle
Sternwheeler. Everyone
will be able to board the
Sternwheeler directly below the Belpre Civitan
Clubhouse located in
Civitan Park. It is handicapped accessible. so you
may park close to the river
and the pick-up ramp for
the cruise.
We will keep the registration costs as low as possible, but please keep in
mind that it will include a
full breakfast, light lunch,
and the Banquet. Teresa
Lupton meting coordinator will handle all registrations including the meal
selection.
Thank for all you do
through your Civitan
Club.
Warmest Regards,
M i c h a el
Flanagan
D.
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Governor Cardinal District of Civitan International 2014-15
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PIONEER HIGHWAY
Early
18th
Century
solitary surveyors and
trappers penetrated the
Ohio wilderness in dugout
canoes similar to those
used by Native Americans
for centuries.
The flatboat allowed
trade to flourish between
settlements along the
Ohio River. They were
large enough to transport
families, with all of their
livestock and earthly
possessions,
to
new
homesteads in the late
18th Century.
Keelboats slowly replaced
flatboats in the early 19th
Century. With a keel and
pointed prow, keelboats
were more maneuverable
and versatile than the
slower, bulkier flatboats.
Wheeling Civitan Club Goes to the Fair (Continued on Pg 3)
The Wheeling West Virginia Civitan Club, which
just celebrated their 90th
anniversary, honored the
winners of the 56th Annual West Liberty University Regional Science Fair
at a recent award luncheon meeting. The winner’s of the science fair,
L-R: Dr. Frank Carenbauer
(President, Wheeling Civitan
Club), Miriam Demari (Sr. Division Grand Prize Winner), Marguerite Demari (Jr. Division
Grand Prize Winner), Luke Rapp
(Jr. Division Grand Prize Runnerup), Dr. James Caveney (Past
President, Awards Ceremony
MC.
the oldest science fair in
America, displayed their
winning projects during
the meeting at Wheeling
Area Training Center for
the
Handicapped
(WATCH). The guests of
honor for the evening represent the best and bright-
The appearance of the
steamboat in the late
19th Century heralded
the end to a way of life.
The wilderness had been
tamed.
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est of a new generation of
scientists.
Sixteen year old Miriam
Demasi from Wheeling
Park High School was
this year’s senior division
grand prize winner.
Miriam, inspired by the
recent natural disasters in
Haiti and Japan, was inspired to find new affordable building solutions for
earthquake prone areas
that use low-cost, lightweight, self-sustaining
materials. The project is
in its second year and is
currently a work in progress.
Luke Rapp, Jr. Division Grand
Prize Runner-up, goes over his
science fair, the Smartbed, project with Civitan Joe Clausen.
The junior division’s
grand prize winner was
Miriam’s fourteen year
old sister, Marguerite Demasi. Margurite, a student
at Vincent de Paul Parish
School, explored the relationship between diazatrophs (bacteria) and plants
to determine if the bacteria
had any effect on plant
growth. She hopes to reduce the impact poor soils
have on starvation and
hunger.
Miriam Luke, Sr. Division Grand
Prize Winner, describes her
project, affordable and selfsustainable disaster relief housing, to Civitan Jamie Simon.
The junior division grand
prize runner up, fourteen
year old Luke Rapp, developed a Smartbed idea. Using sensors commonly
found in video games, the
Smartbed can be used to
track sleeping habits and
sound an alarm in case of
emergencies. Senior division grand prize runner-up
See “Club Goes to the
Fair” - page 3
In Remembrance: The Findlay Area Civitan Club lost an outstanding
member in May. Jim Speck passed away on May 18, 2015. He was
born May 28, 1928. Jim joined Civitan on 12/1/86. Jim was very active in the Findlay Club. He was President from 1992-93 and from
1997-98 and also was Treasurer, Chaplain and Director. Jim also received the Club Honor Key. Jim also was active with numerous club
fund raisers. Jim and his wife Eleanor were both active in the District.
District Meeting Coordinators, on the committee for New Club Building, and Special Olympics in Columbus. They always tried to attend District Meetings and
Conventions and visited the Research Center. Jim always promoted Civitan.
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BLENNERHASSETT
ISLAND STATE
...Club Goes to the Fair (Continued from Pg 2)
Rachel Watson was unable
to attend the meeting but
was still recognized by the
Civitans for accomplishments.
PARK
Civitan Dr. James Caveney, the MC for the
awards luncheon, told the
winners, “Continue to use
the scientific method.
Some of you will be famous. Past science fair
winners have gone on to
great successful careers,
patents, and admission to
professional schools and
PhD programs because they vania.
went the extra mile.”
The International Science
The Wheeling West Vir- Fair offers $1.4 million in
ginia Civitan Club have scholarships and cash
been providing financial prizes to young scientists
and leadership support to competing at the event.
WATCH for over 50 years, Good luck everyone! The
currently sponsoring 50% Civitans are all proud of
of the handicapped clients you!
at the center. Over the last
30 years the club has con- -ENDtributed over $43,000 to
send the science fair winners on to participate in the
International Science Fair
held in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
Pioneer Ladies Honor Special Education Teachers
On May 7th, the Pioneer
Ladies Civitan hosted their
annual awards and dinner
for
Special Education
Teacher and Citizen of the
Year.
The Pioneer Ladies pre-
Karen Stewart presents covolunteers, Amy Ferguson
and Lori
Uhrig with
“Citizen of the Year” awards.
All images courtesy of
Blennerhassett
Island
Historical State Park. For
more information, visit
www.blennerhassttislands
tatepark.com
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pared a potluck and invited
all of the nominated candidates to be recognized for
their outstanding contributions to the community.
The people that nominated
the award candidates were
also invited to dinner.
Amy Ferguson and Lori
Uhrig were co-winners of
the Citizen of the Year
Award. These two friends
have volunteered at several
of the area schools in the
Marietta City School District for over twenty years!
The following teachers
received Honorable Mention Awards for Special
Education Teacher: Kylie
Drake, (Waterford Elementary), Kris Hill
(Marietta High School),
Donna Murphy (Ewing
School-Marietta), and Rachel Wakefield, (Fort Frye
local School District).
The 2015 Special Education Teacher of the Year is
Eileen Cieslewski.
Eileen , nominated by Principle Joy Edgell, is a special
education teacher at Belpre
Elementary School.
L-R: Special Education
Teachers Kris Hill, Donna
Murphy, Eileen Cieslewski,
Rachel Wakefield and Kylie
Drake. Eileen Cieslewski,
center, was awarded
“Special Education Teacher
of the Year”.
We truly respect and admire these teachers as they
strive to teach and encourage each student in their
classroom to be the best
citizen they can be. Many
extra hours of instruction
are often given to students
who just need a little more
help. We thank you ladies!!
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Cardinal District Spring Meeting Photos
Music and Memory
The Civitan Club of North
Columbus screened the
documentary Alive Inside
for the public at a local
theatre for Civitan Awareness Month in April. The
documentary shows how
music can spark memory in
patients with advanced Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
In a recent interview with
Columbus Dispatch reporter Encarnita Pyle, Dr.
Douglas Scharre, director
of the division of cognitive
neurology at Ohio State
University’s Wexner Medical Center explained,
“Music rouses more parts
of the brain than any other
stimulus. It can touch individuals who otherwise
seem unreachable and is a
soundtrack for a mental
movie of their lives. Songs
are often tied to specific
places, people and milestones such as a first kiss,
going to the prom or getting married. Music can
unleash those memories
and increase pleasurable
feelings”.
Ohio. According to the dispatch about 300 nursing
homes in the state are now
participating, and officials
hope to recruit the remaining 670 in the next couple
of years.
To see the powerful impact
music has had on patients
view the Alive Inside trailer
on YouTube. Just type in
“Henry Alive Inside” For
more information on
screening Alive Inside in
you town contact Tom
Thanks to the emotional Daugherty at tomdaugherresponse to the movie, the ty68@gmail.com.
Music and Memory Program is taking hold in -END-
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