Two Weeks Ago                 Three Weeks Ago

08/14/2008

Greeter:  None

Presiding:  Eric Liggett

Invocation:  Offered by Dan Dailey.

Visiting Rotarians:  (Read by Dave Webb) Sunrise – Steve Gary, Cal Gebhart, & Jayne Barr.

Guests:  Ian Webb brought Derrick Hastler again (new member possibly?!?!); Gary Gillen introduced Dr. Debra Fernandes; Glenn Reeser was accompanied by Steve Austria, who is also a Rotarian via another club in Ohio.

Absentees:  Ankrom, Campbell, Catlos, Cellio, Droste, Dutton, Eichstadt, Eitel, Ely, Fluhart, Ford, Hollabaugh, Jack Hooks, Imboden, Kinney, Messick, Mullins, Pairan, Peters, Poling, Powell, Prince, Queen, Ritter, Sneed, Spangler, Starkey, Todd Stevens, Vickers, White, Wippel.

Make-ups:  Circleville Sunrise – Gary Scherer; Hilton Head – Charlie Hedges (2); Townsend, MT – Chuck Wellman; eClubOne – Sister Monica.

Birthdays: (August) 3^rd – Glenn Reeser; 5^th – Bill Stout; 9^th - Bob Cole; 15^th – John White; 16^th – Bud Brehmer; 21^st – Dick Tootle; 31^st – Kelly Feeley.

Anniversaries:  (August) 3^rd – Jack Hooks, John Prince; 4^th – Drex Poling; 7^th – Jerry Leist, Charlie Pockras; 14^th – Dan Fouts; 17^th – Bill Campbell; 18^th – Tom Tootle; 19^th - Bob Sneed; 20^th – Mark Smith; 26^th – John Stout, Bob Tootle; 28^th – Terryl Queen; 30^th – Tom Theller.

Piano:  Don Metzler

Songs:  Norm Wilson chose today’s songs “in honor of the Olympics”: “let There Be Peace On Earth” & “Sing Out A Song Of Rot’ry.”

Student Guests:  None.  (Summer vacation.)

Announcements:   

• Amy Elsea announced that there would be a Golf Committee meeting right after this meeting. (Reminder: the upcoming Rotary Golf Scramble is on Sept. 11^th at Cook’s Creek.  Amy Elsea has brochures for anyone who needs one.  Sue Pairan is selling the raffle tickets.  See Clark Cellio if you’d like to be a volunteer.)

• Eric Ligget reminded us of the “All Ohio Rotary Crew Night” event on Saturday, Aug. 23^rd.  Contact Eric for a flyer, or for more info go to website: http://web.mlsnet.com/t102/tickets/2008/indiv_game2/index.jsp?partner=rotary

• Sister Monica passed around one of our Membership Directories and asked that everyone verify&/or update their contact info.  (Please see her if you have not done this yet!)

• Dick Gerhardt announced that United Way is having its “Community Appreciation Day” this Sunday, the 17^th, from 1-5 pm at the City Pool.  (Admission is free with a donation of an unopened/unused back-to-school item!)

• Mark Smith said that this year has brought the highest enrollment yet at OCU!  Good to hear!!  He suggested that with “all these new people coming to the community,” this would be a good time to let them (new people) know about your business &/or how you support the educational system.

SAA:  None.

Lottery:  Kelly Feeley bought the winning ticket of $23.  Unfortunately she was not able to find the lucky bean. The pot has grown to $2,738.

Program:  Vince Yaniga introduced today’s program speaker, Patricia Whalen-Shaw.  Patricia is a 20-year resident of Pickaway County, and has been a nationally licensed Massage Therapist for 16 years.  Among the good-sized list of accomplishments, Vince noted that she was part of the Staff of the Para-Olympics in Atlanta, GA.  She has developed a method called “Integrated Touch Therapy,” and performs massage therapy on animals as well as humans!

Patricia opened in an unconventionally way…by asking for questions first.  She commented, “Often people have questions right away.”  (Unfortunately our group wasn’t one of those groups.  The room was silent.)

Patricia quickly moved on by giving a brief history of herself & her methods.  She invited her pre-selected volunteer (Amy Elsea, who it was said was “taking one for the team.”  Yeah, quite a sacrifice there, Amy!!)  While she spoke, she demonstrated her points & methods on Amy. 

Here is a summary of her presentation:

• Many people can benefit from massage therapy, such as athletes, & people in high-stress occupations or repetitive-motion jobs (e.g. keyboard entry, assembly-line).

• She performs and teaches massage therapy for animals as well.  “Animals compete too!”

• She feels strongly that “if you have an injury, you need to see a doctor before I will touch you.”

• Performs on athletes both pre-competitions (to prepare) & post- competitions (to “flush tissues”).

• Youngest patient: 6 weeks old

• Oldest patient: 99 years old

• Massage therapy (MT) can help speed the healing time, increase circulation, and improve mental well-being.

• There are many benefits to MT, such as it lowers blood pressure, slows respiration, improves attitude and temperament, improves skin tone, and strengthens the immune system.

• Three steps to MT:

  1. “Open up by touch” to find the trigger points. (Done by stroking area to find painful spots.)

  2. “Knead the tissue” to soften it & increase blood to area to help with healing.  (Done by rubbing area just like kneading dough.)

  3. “Flush out fluids” and bring in new blood. (Done by a chopping motion called “hacking,” or by patting motions.)

• Many of her clients come to get help relaxing.

• Should always check with your doctor before beginning MT, because there are certain medications & conditions in which MT should not be performed (e.g. blood thinners).

Contact info: 

Patricia Whalen-Shaw, LMT, SMT

7041 Zane Trail Rd

Circleville

474-6436

Eric regained the podium to inform Patricia that a donation will be made in her name to the Community Park fund. 

Meeting adjourned.

August’s program schedule: (as submitted by Vince Yaniga)

• 21^st:  Rotary GSE – Anthony Neff & the 2008 American GSE Team

• 28^th:  Update on Berger Health System – Larry Thornhill

September’s program schedule: (as submitted by Dave Moss)

• 4^th:  Wendy Woods of Stepping Stones

• 11^th:  Annual Rotary Golf Scramble

• 18^th:  “MBA Program offered at Berger” – Dr. Ed Yost, OU-Chillicothe

• 25^th:  Jan Broughton, new Superintendent of Logan Elm School System

Until next week…,

Patty Rothe,

Editor

E-mail: pjrothe@rpjohnson.net