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Club Assembly - Nicole Matz (Club President)
Brookside Country Club
Jul 28, 2021
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Matt Green & Amy Wolf - Pottstown Porchcast
Brookside Country Club
Aug 04, 2021
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Guest speaker - Paula Bickelman
Brookside Country Club
Aug 11, 2021
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Bob Hobaugh - DG7430 Visit to Pottstown Rotary
Brookside Country Club
Aug 18, 2021
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Annual Clambake - Whittaker Residence
Whittaker Family Residence
Aug 25, 2021
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
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Jodi Clemmer
July 1
 
Larry Gallagher
July 1
 
Mike Bright
July 3
 
Nicole Matz
July 12
 
Daniel Delgadillo
July 16
 
Bob Rettinger
July 23
 
William Haley
July 28
 
Spouse Birthdays
Mo Manley
July 29
 
Anniversaries
Jamie Ottaviano
Karen Ottaviano
July 5
 
Al Kutz
July 18
 
Rick Albitz
Sandy Albitz
July 21
 
Sandy Albitz
Rick Albitz
July 21
 
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Frank Strunk
July 1, 1995
26 years
 
Larry Gallagher
July 1, 1987
34 years
 
Deb Penrod
July 9, 2014
7 years
 
Mike Bright
July 13, 2011
10 years
 
Donna Manley
July 22, 2015
6 years
 
Daniel Delgadillo
July 25, 2018
3 years
 
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Duck Race 2019
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This week at Rotary - guest speaker Tara Sweeney
Join us this week as guest speaker Tara Sweeney shares her knowledge with us about space exploration with a conversation about "Recalculating the Perspective and Trajectory of Your Dreams".

Tara has been inspiring children and adults to see the wonder of space exploration and the importance of the STEM fields that make it possible for nearly four decades. She has served as CEO, President, Interim Executive Director, COO, CSO, and Vice President, of technology test and evaluation organizations focused on operations in austere and hazardous environments for national defense, homeland security, and intelligence community projects.

Tara is a retired United States Air Force Special Operations Command Officer. She has engaged in both military and civilian aviation activities, including as a single-engine aircraft pilot, a glider student pilot, a helicopter maintenance officer, a parabolic flight coach, and a parabolic flight attendant. Tara has accumulated approximately five hours in microgravity while conducting space-based research experiments and training participants how to experience reduced gravity.
She previously served as the leader of the world-renowned STEM education program, Space Camp, at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center and was inducted into the Space Camp Hall of Fame in 2018. Tara holds degrees from the United States Air Force Academy, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Regis University. She is currently pursuing her doctorate at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Tara is from Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and has twice been inducted into the Fitchburg High School Athletic Hall of Fame as an Individual Inductee and as a Team Inductee. She presently lives in El Paso, Texas, with her wife, Dr. Jennifer Bishop, and their dogs, Sylvia and Molly.
 
Please note - we are planning to continue with a hybrid meeting format.  For hybrid meetings we are aiming for a minimum of 20 in-person attendees in order to support the meeting logistics.  For those comfortable to attend in person, masking and social distancing rules will be followed although relaxed if you are vaccinated.  Registration is required for in-person attendance so that we can plan meals. Register here if you have not done so.
 
Social hour starts at 5:30 pm at Brookside Country Club.  Dinner is at 6:30 pm with program to follow.
 
For those who wish to see the presentation from a Zoom meeting, your login information is below:
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July 4th Activities
 
The Pottstown Rotary Club will again organize the community parade to be held on Sunday the 4th of July.  It will begin at 11 am on High Street at Adams and last about one hour.
 
Steve Smith needs help in decorating our float on Sunday morning - which will be about 8:30 am. 
Deb Penrod is taking registrations for participants to help with the parade.  She needs eight people to volunteer to organize the participants on Sunday morning. 
These people can also walk with the float in the parade. 
We need four people to walk among the parade watchers soliciting donations.  Sprinkling cans will be provided for donations.
 
We will also need help at the end of the parade to set up the Duck at High and Hanover Sts. and our booth for selling Duck Tickets during the Pottstown GoFourth event on High St. 
We need people to sell tickets from 1 to 3.  The Duck Race will be held at 3 pm.  We will draw certificates to determine the winners.
 
If you can help for any part of these activities, please let us know -
contact Dick Frantz by phone 610-308-1424 or email prfrantz@aol.com

Thank you,
 
Dick Frantz
Parade Chairman

Jean Spotts
Duck Race
 

 
Upcoming Events Summary
This week at Rotary:  July 21st - Guest speaker Mike Sloane
 
July 28 - Club Assembly, Nicole Matz officiating
 
Aug 4th - Pottstown Porchcast, Matt Green & Amy Wolf speakers
 
Aug 11th - Guest speaker Paula Bickelman
 
Aug 18th - District Governor Robert Hobaugh visiting
 
Aug 25th - Annual Clambake - Whittaker residence
 
Thanks for supporting the Pottstown Rotary Club.
 

 
Club Information
Welcome to our Club!
Pottstown Rotary
Service Above Self
We meet Wednesdays at 6:30 PM
Brookside Country Club
Prospect and Adams Streets
Pottstown, PA  19464
United States
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