Our District Governor will visit our regular club meeting on May 13th as her "governor's official visit." She'll have a few remarks to make. Let's have a good turnout from the far southwest corner of her district.
Today we will have a presentation on "Branding" by Cecilia Wichmann. She has several different presentations coming under her general heading of "From Flatline to Frontline."
Truett Calvert, a funeral director at Midlothian Funeral Home introduced the program by showing a video of the project and its history, then Charlotte Waldrum gave us more details. (Laura also acknowledged Randy Hampton, Truett’s boss, here to support the presentation.)
We had a good turnout - 10 members and 9 guests. Gayla brought some turkey lasagna and a bundt cake, Cammy brought some garlic bread, and we had a fruit and nut sweet salad. Everything was good. Wine and water were available. It was a fun evening.
Kim updated us on the various aspects of the 2025 Old Glory Flag program on April 22. She reminded us of what it takes to get flags ready and out, and our various partners in this endeavor where we share some of our proceeds. Memorial Day is coming up quickly!
Our new member, Bob Bythewood, presented his vocational / classification talk on April 15th.
Our own (past president) Tim Tobey spoke on the topic "Why is my insurance so high?" on April 8th. Tim is a long-time State Farm agent here in Midlothian.
The annual Four Way Test Speech Contest was held on April 1st at the Midlothian Civic Center. We had seven speakers brought by the speech / debate teacher, Kristi Bogy, pictured above.
Writer Greg Hall spoke to us on March 25th. He is a good story teller and the one he told had a good moral to it having to do with being aware of our own prejudices.
Ross Weaver made it by J. R. Irvin Elementary School last week to make a presentation of children's library books to the librarian there, Joan McGee. Midlothian Rotary contributes children's library books as an honorarium for our speakers and presenters.
Haley Seale and Josiah Anthony with Meals on Wheels North Central Texas did our Meals on Wheels update along with their March fundraiser, March for Meals, on March 11th.
Our RYLA Campers made an enthusiastic presentation at our meeting on June 25th at Beef 'O' Brady's. Addison, Jorja, Jackson, Shelly and Zoe told us all about their experiences and had a presentation as well as a slide show and even a QuickTime movie.
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