Trivia Night Evaluation
Louann Elledge
February 8, 2012

10 members and no guests present.

After announcements and communications, President Ed turned the meeting over to Louann to lead us in a discussion about our recent Trivia Night. Louann did a terrific job of compiling the results of the surveys people turned in with their comments. Overall, the comments were very complimentary of the evening.

We did talk quite a bit about some areas that we feel we can improve upon, and to check into some other dates and possible locations to hold our Trivia Night next year. Louann, Judy & Ed will meet soon to work out some of the details and then we will talk more about this at our Business Meeting in February.

Angels Arms, Jasmina Schue
February 1, 2012

10 members and 1 guest present: today’s speaker Jasmina Schue of Angel’s Arms. After announcements and communications, Louann Elledge introduced Jasmina Schue to give us an update on Angels Arms.

Angel’s Arms was begun in 2000 by Beth Wilfong to provide homes and services to foster children in an attempt to keep siblings together. They currently are serving 200 sibling groups in 9 homes in and around the St. Louis area. They recently received $700,000 from two annonymous donors with the stipulation that the money could only be spent for new houses. So they immediately went out and purchased 3 new homes – two in O’Fallon, MO and one off Mattis Rd. They receive no federal or state monies, so all of their funds come from fundraisers, grants and private donors. Their Managing Director is Zip Rzeppa. With the new homes, they are in great need of some furniture, bedding, and all sorts of other items to help turn these houses into real homes. And, of course, they can always use more volunteers.

Board/Business Meeting
January 25, 2012

12 members and no guests present. During our Board Meeting, Secretary Rick read the minutes of our last meeting and Treasurer Vern presented the Treasurer’s Report. Both were approved as presented. Vern asked for some direction on the dilemma of now having to order Savings Bonds online only. Everyone who buys a bond and everyone who gets a bond must open an account, but businesses and organizations cannot have an account. After considerable discussion, the club voted to give a check to the Outstanding Students along with the directions of how to open an account and encourage them to purchase a bond themselves. Judy will be attending the Mid-winter conference in Springdale, AR in early March, and we voted to give her all the money budgeted for that meeting.

In the Business Meeting, announcements were made and communications passed around. Some time was given to going over the plans for our Trivia Night this Saturday. Lee reported on the Region IV meeting several members attended last Saturday. President Ed announced all the confirmed dates for Texas Roadhouse and all the Peanut dates. Louann will conduct our Trivia Night follow-up evaluation meeting on February 8.

Outstanding Students
January 18, 2012

12 members and 6 guests: Andrew Torbeck (Outstanding Student from Green Park Lultheran School), his parents Mark & Julie Torbeck, his grandparents Harvey & Marlene Steinbach, and his teacher Angie Schiller. President Ed made several announcements and then Jeanne Crews introduced Andrew.

January 11, 2012

12 members and 5 guests present: Jerry Elledge; and a Flying Squadron from Bridgeton Kiwanis - Dave Tuck, Lorraine Wagner, Lyle Downes, and Paul Meyer.

Today was Trivia Night Planning so Louann led the meeting by going over all the various tasks to be completed. All members know their responsibilities and the planning is well on the way to completion. Sue has a list of workers and Ed has a list of people for the pizza supper. We will get there at 3:30 pm to begin setting up and then we will go from there.

Dave Tuck, Region IV Trustee spoke briefly about the Region IV Meeting coming up in a couple of weeks. The purpose of the meeting is to begin seeking his replacement as Trustee, to determine a date for the Governor’s Visit, and to begin making plans for the MO-ARK District Convention to be held in St. Louis August 2-5.

Ed & Vern reported that Gerry Abeln is home, but it will be a while before she will be able to attend again. Lee will be getting the Scholarship information to the schools this week or next. Judy, Lee & Ed will attend the Region IV meeting on Jan 21. Ed will contact Texas Roadhouse about arranging a fundraiser with them in March, and he will also set up peanut sale days for April & May.

Andrew is on the Honor Roll at school, plays the violin in their orchestra and was recently in a select orchestra concert, is active in his church and youth group activities, plays sports and especially likes baseball, and enjoys fishing with his grandpa. His teacher tells us that he was a unanimous choice for today’s honor from all of the teachers at school and is an all-around great student, both in and out of school. Andrew plans to attend Lutheran High School South next year and plans a career in engineering.

In order to help keep the food pantry at Feed My People stocked, we are collecting non-perishable item to each meeting for delivery to Feed My People. If you cannot buy groceries, they will accept any grocery gift cards to give to their clients.

Kiwanis Club of South County Leadership Team

Officers
President Steve Dodson
President-elect Ed Kurmann*
Vice-President Mary Howard*
Secretary Rick Kircher
Treasurer Vern Langenfeld

Board Members
(2nd year of a 2-year term)
Vacant
Louann Elledge 2009-11
Bob Jackson 2009-11
(1st year of a 2-year term)
Gerry Abeln 2010-12
Carla Rowell 2010-12

Immediate Past President
Ed Kurmann

Our Annual Meeting was held on Wednesday, April 27.

Congratulations to the following members who were elected to their respective positions for the 2011-12 Administrative Year.
Officers

President Ed Kurmann
President-elect Lee Bodendieck
Vice-President Mary Howard*
Secretary Rick Kircher
Treasurer Vern Langenfeld
Past President Steve Dodson
Board Members

(2nd year of a 2-year term)
Gerry Abeln 2012
Carla Rowell 2012
(1st year of a 2-year term)
Louann Elledge 2013
Bob Jackson 2013
Joel Lechner 2013

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