Joel Daniel Harris is the founder and Executive Dreamer of TomTod Ideas, an innovation incubator for middle school students, centered on launching the dreams of students centered on the common good. A Canton city resident and Malone University alum, Harris has over a decade of experience as an advocate for early adolescents and has served on a variety of boards and causes in his community. His work includes chairing committees for United Way and Leadership Stark County, serving as a mentor for both Canton City and Plain Local school districts, and as a Service Learning Trip leader for Malone University. JDH received his Masters in 2012 from George Fox University and has been regularly honored for his work with students and in the community, including receiving the Layperson of the Year Award from the Canton Professional Educators’ Association (2014), Malone University’s Young Alumnus of the Year (2012) and as a Twenty under 40! recipient (2015).

 

SPEAKER CHAIR - MAX BARTON

INVOCATOR - DAN MATTHEWS

SONG LEADER - MICHELLE MULLALY

GREETER LEADER - DAVE TRUAX

The Board of Trustees has nominated the following Rotarians for possible election to the Board for the next Rotary year.  They are:  Mark Clendenin, Frank Fleischer, Bill Liber, Jeff Scott and Dave Truax.  Election of Board members for the next Rotary year will be held at the November 11, 2016 meeting.

 

Here are your Officers for the 2017-2018 Rotary year:  President - Amanda Tietze; President Elect - Michelle Mullaly; Vice President - Mark Rojek; Treasurer - Tom Clevenger; Secretary - Suzette Matthews.

 

 

 

Mark Clendenin -- has been the Regional Business Development Manager in NE Ohio for the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation since 2012 serving as a liaison for CEO/Administrator Sarah Morrison, as well as for the previous administrator Stephen Buehrer; Mark has more than 30 years of experience in both the public and private sectors and this includes experience in risk management, public and private accounting, manufacturing, construction, financial services, and education; Mark has been an active member of Rotary in District 6650 since 1999 as a member of both Jackson and Canton Rotary.  Mark has served at the district level as public relations grant writer and as a member of the Youth Exchange Committee, and at the club level as New Generations Chair, Vice President, and as a Youth Exchange host family.  Mark, along with his wife Tracie and children Taylor, Logan, and Lyndsey have hosted international exchanges from Japan, France, Germany, Spain, and China.  Mark is active in other organizations which include Habitat for Humanity, Akron Canton Food Bank, and Walsh University; Mark holds a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio, as well as a Master in Public Administration from Kent State University.

 

 

Frank Fleischer -- Owner of Feischer Shoe Co., a family business which was started in 1920; Graduate of Ohio Academy of Hypnosis in clinical and forensic hypnosis, post graduate course at Ohio Institute of Medical Hypnosis, graduated from the Ohio State Police Officers course in forensic hypnosis at the Ohio State Police Academy at London, Ohio; Frank has been a Rotarian for 46 years. Frank's Rotary involvement has consisted of working with the Philomatheon Society of the Blind and has helped with their picnic for many, many years, Greeter, Invocator; Frank is currently serving on the Board of Directors of Coming Together of Stark County (formerly Town Hall of Race Relations); He has been active with American Board of Certification in pedorthics (Founder); Member of the Chamber of Commerce serving on many of their committees; Board of Directors of the Downtown Canton Retail Merchants Association and served as president multiple times; served on Mayor Stanley Cmich's Taskforce on Crime chairing their safety forces committee; Board of Directors of the Philomatheon Society of the Blind of Canton, Ohio; Served on the board of Community Wellness Center of Canton, Ohio; Co-founded along with Judge Harry Klide and Professor Will Cooley the committee on criminal judicial reform.

 

 

 

 

Bill Liber -- Senior Vice President of Stifel Nicolaus and Company, Inc.; Purdue University, Industrial Economics; North Western University, Investment Banking Institute; Bill has been a Rotarian for 5 years in Canton and 15 years in Franklin, PA Rotary; Bill's Rotary involvement consists of Foundation Committee; Greeter, Invocation, Pancake Breakfast, Club Membership Chair. Bill has also been involved in Board of Directors of Butler Wick & Co. & Executive Committee 1983-2009; Past President of Franklin, PA Rotary Club; Marlington Alumni Association 1991 & 1992; Board of Trustees Franklin Regional Medical Center 1976-1988 - Board President for one year; North Canton Hoover High School Football Boosters, President.

 

 

 

 

Jeff Scott - - President of Scott Talbot Salonspa; Cosmetology/Summit Business College; Jeff has been a Rotarian for 18 years; Jeff's Rotary involvement consists of serving on the GOTS, Co-Chair of the Student Exchange, Appreciation Day Chair, 4 Way Test Chair and Pancake Day committee.  Jeff is also involved on the Redken Academy Advisory Board Member Cleveland and Board member Camp Quality Ohio 2010-2015.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dave Truax - - is Scout Executive/CEO of the Buckeye Council Boy Scouts of America; Mount Union Sociology, Political Science; Member of Rotary for 9 years.

The Rotary office received a "Thank You" note from Kim Kroh, Executive Director of the American Red Cross.  Kim writes:

 

"Dear Fellow Rotarians, Thank you so much for your very generous gift for your American Red Cross supporting Operation Save-a-Life.  We have installed nearly 800 alarms since the beginning of our fiscal year (July 1, 2016).

 

Also, many thanks to those of you who participated in our "partnership" fire walk October 22nd.  We installed 93 alarms!! Wow!! It is awesome to be part of such a dedicated and caring club!"

JOHN F. GERM
PRESIDENT 2016-17
NOVEMBER 2016

Looking back at the momentous 1917 Rotary Convention in Atlanta, it is difficult to see what could have been contentious about the words of then-President Arch C. Klumph: “It seems eminently proper that we should accept endowments for the purpose of doing good in the world.” Yet, at the time, support for the idea was far from unanimous. Some thought an endowment fund would create more trouble than it was worth. But Klumph’s idea received the support it most needed in the form of an initial donation of $26.50 from the Rotary Club of Kansas City, Mo.

Nearly 100 years later, we recognize Klumph’s idea as not only visionary, but revolutionary: It set in place the mechanism that allowed Rotary to become the vast force for “doing good in the world” that it is today.

In many ways, our Rotary Foundation is the foundation of Rotary as  we know it. It has created a mechanism for cooperation and partnership among clubs and between Rotary and other organizations; it has enabled us to  be ever more ambitious in our work and to reach for goals of historic proportions, such as the eradication of polio. It is impossible to quantify the  good that has been done over the last century as a result of The Rotary Foundation. All we can know for sure is that Arch Klumph, if he could see it, would be proud.

I am looking forward to seeing many of you at our international convention in Atlanta: the city where our Foundation was born. I hope a record number of Rotarians will be there to celebrate the centennial of our Foundation. In the meantime, there are plenty of other ways to celebrate! I encourage you to read more about the Foundation centennial at centennial.rotary.org. There, you’ll learn about the history of our Foundation and find ideas for events and projects in your clubs and your community.

One of the most important ways we are celebrating the Foundation centennial is with a fundraising goal of $300 million. Your gift to your Foundation is the best way of ensuring a strong second century for Rotarians Doing Good in the World and for Rotary Serving Humanity.