President DAVE SHOEMAKER led a group discussion on the functions of the Club's many committees, outlining their functions and encouraging members to join the teams. Service is the backbone of ROTARY and finding ways to involve more members in the actual running of functions and events is one of Dave's goals.
He had leaders of several of the committees speak to the club.
JIM HOLLINGER spoke about scholarships and loans, the latter being passed out in favour of scholarships. We will be concentrating on just the Norristown School District in the future.
JIM NUTT spoke for the Grant Committee outlining the grant selection process and the implementation of an on-line system for gathering grant requests from the public.
NICK GEERS spoke on the ROTARY FOUNDATION, stressing how the work of the Foundation is critical to the mission of ROTARY INTERNATIONAL. November is National Rotary Foundation month, and Nick encouraged all members to contribute annually to the fund.