Upcoming meetings and events - click links for sign-up sheets
Bold indicates meeting in the club room, name is member assigned to the meeting,
(V) is a volunteer opportunity, (D) is a district event, BM is board meeting
December – Disease Prevention & Treatment
11 – Area 3 Christmas Party
18 – Club Christmas Exchange
25 – No Meeting, Christmas Holiday
January – Vocational Services
1 – No meeting, New Year’s Day
8 – Student of the Month
15 – BM; Club Assembly
22 – Social event TBD
(V) 26 – Kutztown Kitchen
29 – Rob Hain
Meeting this week
Meeting this Wednesday, December 11, will be the Area 3/4 Holiday Party at Moselem Springs Golf Club.
Rotarians from the clubs of Birdsboro, Conrad Weiser, Fleetwood, Hamburg, Kutztown, Muhlenberg, Reading, Spring Township, Centennial, and West Reading/Wyomissing will join together to spread some holiday cheer.
Social time/cash bar/raffle tickets will start at 6:00 and dinner will start at 7:00. The buffet dinner includes salad, roast turkey, beef masala, mashed potatoes, vegetable, dessert and beverages. Vegetarian plates are available upon request at time of reservation.
Clubs will provide $100 raffle baskets to benefit Helping Hands Food Bank. After dinner will be Berks trivia + prizes for winning table.
It is grant application time through March 30, 2025 for both District Grants and Global Grants. In order to participate in grants, more than 1 person in each club needs to complete the grant training, which is then good for 3 years. Training expired this year for all but one member in the Kutztown club, so we need members to get the training. Members who are grant trained are responsible for writing and coordinating grants.
Grant Training will be held by ZOOM on January 13, 2025 at 6:00 pm
Club and Foundation Director and Executive Nominations
Our club meeting for electing the club and foundation board members is one month away! On December 18, 2024, we will have our club holiday party and annual vote. We will be electing members of the club and foundation boards for the
2025-2026 Rotary year. Below are the current 2024-2025 board members.
If you wish to be considered for a position, you still can send an email to Melissa Kirk or Marie DeFilipps or just nominate yourself on December 18. Here is what the nominations look like now:
Club Officers and Board 2025-2026
President –Rose Galeano-Phillips
President Elect – vacant
Vice President - vacant
Secretary – Melissa Kirk
Treasurer – Joni McPike
Directors –Erin Bailey, Jim Springer, Chris Volk
Past President – Marie DeFilipps (not an elected position)
Sgt.-at-Arms – Willem Hordijk (not an elected position)
Foundation Officers and Board 2025-2026
Foundation President – Florita Hobaugh
Foundation Treasurer – Joni McPike
Foundation Secretary – Tom Kulp
Directors – Ralph Capristo, Mike Collins, Holly Diefenderfer, Kurt Rohrbach, Doug Wunder
The Area 3/4 holiday party will be held on December 11 at the Moselem Springs Country Club. More clubs are invited this year, and we are limited to 80 participants, so RSVP and submit the $55 per person fee early. More details can be found on the calendar or the sign-up sheet.
Club members are responsible for meetings throughout the year. Some meetings each month are assigned to a club member and that member is responsible for providing the program for that night (and the invocation). Please tell the club secretary (Melissa Kirk) who/what your programming will be as early as you can, but no later than 6 weeks before your date. If you cannot provide a program for your assigned date, please switch with someone and let Melissa know as soon as possible. The current meeting list will be updated regularly and can be found at this link.
On deck for January and February are: Rob Hain (Jan 29th), Chris Vold (Feb 12) and Bob Hobaugh (Feb 26).
Last Wednesday, December 4th, members of the Kutztown Rotary Club celebrated the Student of the Month ceremony for December. One student from each of Kutztown Area High School and Brandywine Heights Area High School is selected by school administrators each month throughout the school year for this award based collectively on academic achievement, school participation, and community contributions. Honored for November and December for Brandywine were Hayley Reeser and Tyler Pham and for December for Kutztown was Kourtney Dietrich.
The students addressed the club members at the Student of the Month Ceremony where they demonstrated qualities of an exemplary students. The ceremony normally occurs during the Kutztown Rotary meeting on the first Wednesday of the month at the Kutztown Tavern, where the weekly meetings for the club generally take place. Follow the link below to see more pictures from the meeting.
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