Kee-Notes
Weekly Newsletter
of the Kiwanis Club of Bethesda, Maryland
Serving the
Community Since 1945
Meeting Date: December
18, 2008
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The last meeting
of the year was opened by President Debbie Van Horn with the
pledge, God Bless
America,
and Scott Brewer offered the prayer.
Guests:
We had a room
full of guests from the John L. Gildner Regional Institute for
Children and Adolescents (RICA) today. Diana Jamieson, Eva Marie
Kenealy, and Jim Polimadei, RICA staff members. Debbie
Van Horn has the pleasure of working with these young men through
the various RICA programs. Plus we had 8 students from RICA.
Also guest Cody Burton, a freshman at Princeton and was
Teenager of the Year, received a $500 book card from us to help pay
for his books at Princeton. Cody was accompanied by his
girlfriend Jasleen Salwan who attends Brown University.
Happy Dollars:
Ben
Schlesinger HD for the RICA student guests today. Debbie Van
Horn 11 HD for all the guests from RICA. Bernadeen Zivkovic
2 HD who is proud and glad to be part of our club. Jeanne Smith
HD for new member Bernadeen who is so enthusiastic about the club,
and another HD for Cody Burton.
Program:
The young men in
RICA spoke to our group about their participation in recent
activities. The group went to a Barnes and Noble book store and each
one bought a book (not a text book, but
a
book on a topic of their choosing). They also established a library at
their cottage with books bought on their recommendation. Students from
other cottages heard about their library and began asking about
borrowing the books. The students are in charge of the library and
keep track of who has borrowed the book with penalties to those who
fail to bring the book back. Another trip which they loved involved a
trip to the Smith Center (one of
Montgomery County's outdoor recreation facilities). The outdoor
ed center helps groups to get to know each other better and to
co-operate in physical tasks such as wall climbing. The activities the
students engaged in that day helped them develop, enhance, and
maintain good human relations among themselves and with their
teachers. One life lesson all the students learned is that even
if you don't like someone you have to respect them. Finally they
thanked Kiwanis for supporting RICA (our club donates money
specifically for scholarships for graduating high school students from
RICA).
Cody Burton
thanked our club for supporting him. At Princeton, he volunteers to
work at the local Fire Department
as an EMT eight hours a week and loves it. He was surprised by how
intellectual the students are even to the point of thinking up a
version of twenty questions while they were on a hike along the
Appalachian
trail.
Our next meeting
will be on January 8 following the holidays.
Scott
Brewer won the 50/50 and donated it back to the club.
George Patterson, Editor for the Day
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