Kutztown Rotary Club
Weekly Bulletin 

Volume 2 | Issue 47

Bulletin for the week of November 30, 2025

  
Upcoming meetings and events - click links for sign-up sheets
Bold indicates meeting in the club room, (V) is a volunteer opportunity
 
December – Disease Prevention & Treatment
 
10 – Area 3/4 Christmas Party
17 – Club Christmas Exchange
24 – No Meeting, Christmas Eve
31 – No meeting, New Year’s Eve
January 2026 – Vocational Services
7 – Student of the Month and Rotary speaker
14 – Club assembly
21 – Social
(V) 25 – Kutztown Kitchen
28 – Speaker
 
No Club Meeting
Wednesday, December 10th
Hope to see you there!
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Important Announcements or News
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Meetings coming up
 
 
Service Committee meeting on Tuesday, December 9 at 5:30
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 856 1150 7285
Passcode: 332255
 
 
Farmers' Night committee meeting on Thursday, December 11 at 6:30
In-person meeting at Heart and Hearth 
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 838 7265 1730
Passcode: 218500
 
History sub committee meeting on Tuesday, December 16 at 6:00
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 880 5179 0674
Passcode: 003939
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Join the fun as the Kutztown Rotary club celebrates the holiday season with an ugly sweater party and Secret Santa Gift Exchange on December 17.
  • Each person brings a wrapped gift worth $19.26 or less
  • Gifts should be wrapped but otherwise no names, markings, etc
  • Following the rules that will be explained, participants will have the option of “taking” someone else’s already opened gift or choosing an unopened gift
  • At the end, we will award a prize in the ugly Christmas sweater contest
We will also have our annual vote. We will vote on officers and directors for both the club and foundation boards as well as updates to the club bylaws (see club assembly notes for more information on bylaws updates).
Please consider attending - we need a club quorum to vote.
 
Club Officers and Board positions
President - Laura McBride/Rose Galeano-Phillips
President Elect - open
Vice President - open
Secretary - Melissa Kirk
Treasurer - Joni McPike
Past President (not an elected position)
Sgt.-at-Arms - Willem Hordijk
Directors - Chris Volk, Amy Sheller, Bob Brad, Erin Bailey
 
Foundation Officers and Board
Foundation President - Florita Hobaugh
Foundation Treasurer - Joni McPike
Foundation Secretary - Tom Kulp
Directors - Mike Collins, Ralph Capristo, George Muugi, Julie Pummer
Club President (by default, not a voting position)
 
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Reading Royals vs Greenville Swamp Rabbits
Santander Arena
Saturday, February 28th

Calling all Rotarians and friends of Rotary!  Areas 3 and 4 are getting together for a night of Royals Hockey.  $5 from every ticket sold will be donated back to the Rotary Club mentioned during ticket purchase.  
Puck drops at 7pm
Arrive early for the Snuggie Giveaway and pre-game women in sports panel

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS

Tickets are in section 113 at $31.18 per seat inclusive of processing fees.

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Early bird District Conference Registration ends December 15th!

Conference dates are April 17-19, 2026. 

Seven Rotary Districts in conjunction with Lincoln Leadership Institute. 

Information and link for registration can be found here.

 

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This past week for Kutztown Rotary
December Club Assembly
Our meeting last week was the December Club Assembly where we presented the current nominees for the club and foundation boards. In addition, we discussed some updates to the club bylaws. These updates were emailed to all members on Thursday, December 4th and will be voted on at the club meeting on Wednesday December 17th, as long as we have a club quorum. The updates are also summarized below and available at the link below. We will provide a zoom option for this portion of the meeting. If you have any questions, you can email our president, Rose.
 
Summary of bylaws changes:
  • Removal of attendance requirement and leave of absence - The club no longer tracks attendance or has an attendance requirement
  • Removal of service membership -Since we no longer require/track attendance, it is no longer relevant
  • Clarify Seargent of Arms to be an elected position instead of a board appointed position
  • Removal of a portion of dues being automatically donated to RI foundation - This is no longer allowed by Rotary International so members will need to do this donation on their own
  • Change date of dues to June (half can be paid in June and half in December or a full year in June) - The reason for this change is that the district and international dues are set in June. Members will receive bills due June 20 and December 20 - the bills must be paid (or discussed) by the end of June and the end of December for the member to continue on the roster
  • We will also vote on the dues amount for 2026-2027
 
Bylaws proposed changes
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Centennial Celebration Corner
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Kutztown Rotary Club will celebrate a 100-year anniversary in
April of 2026 and we are celebrating the whole year of 2026!
Our tentative timeline is shown here:
 
 
 
NexTrex!
Keep up the great work!
We have reached our first goal and our bench order has been placed!
 
But keep on collecting - we are doing a second bench and are already at 667.7 pounds!
Just continue to send pictures of your drop off and let us know the weight.
 
 
 Please email or text your picture and the weight to Melissa Kirk or Laura McBride to get it recorded at NexTrex to count towards our 1000 lbs for the bench. If you are unable to drop off the plastic yourself, please bring it to a meeting.
 
 
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