This week we will have the pleasure of listening to our exchange student from Argentina, Mora Garay, while enjoying our desserts at the Purple Iris. Mora will be telling us about her past year as an exchange student with our club. Mora is from Corrientes, Argentina, which is in the northeast corner of Argentina. As part...
Pastoral Care and Counseling, as offered though the Tri-County Pastoral Counseling Service, is a valuable instrument by which the church remains relevant to the human needs of our world today. Pastoral Counseling is an essential means by which the church is helped to be a lifesaving station and not a club…a hospital and a garden of...
The West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind were established by an Act of the Legislature on March 3, 1870. The School for the Deaf and the School for the Blind offer comprehensive educational programs for hearing impaired and visually impaired students respectively. There is also a unit for deaf, blind and multihandicapped children....
The Mission of the Benedum Foundation is to encourage human development in West Virginia and Southwestern Pennsylvania through strategically placed charitable resources. The following principles guide the Foundation’s grants programs in those regions: To honor Michael and Sarah Benedum’s belief in “helping people help themselves,” and seek opportunities to cultivate the creativity of people and communities. To nurture leadership...
The Martinsburg-Berkeley County Convention and Visitor Bureau (CVB) is a not-for-profit membership organization that works to develop our communities through travel and tourism. This week Laura Gassler will tell us more about this organization and what it is doing. Last Week John Antonik, director of New Media for WVU sports, spoke to us mainly about the football...
It can’t be easy being director of New Media for WVU sports. There are six different websites as well as social media such as Twitter and Facebook that you have to coordinate. There are 17 different sports you have to publicize. Add to that the fact that WVU is in the Big 12 with no...
A choir (also known as chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus. The former term is very often applied to groups affiliated with...
This week we will have one of my favorite programs—member biographies. Over the years I have tried to speculate on these biographies and have failed miserably in predicting them. But that hasn’t stopped me in the past and I see no reason to let it stop me now. In a new tradition, we will have one...
The good news is that we are meeting at the Purple Iris and will have desserts! And there really isn’t any bad news. We will be having one of our quarterly club assemblies. A club assembly, as defined by Rotary International, is a meeting of the officers, directors, and committee chairmen of a club to coordinate...
Several members of our club were Girl Scouts, and some of them remain quite active in scouting. Among those who are very active are Berniece Collis, Joanne Wadsworth, and Layne Diehl, who was recently recognized for her endeavors at the meeting in Washington, DC. Girl Scouting in the United States of America began on March 12,...