Rotary Club of Indialantic Club #4395

Established in 1958

District 6930 Governor: Gene Burkett

President: Jim Bowen

President Elect: Steve Spragins

Secretary: Bryan Fernandez

Treasurer: Jock Walker

Past President: Julia Babbitt

New Generations: Julia Babbitt

Director at Large: Brian Fernandez, Loren Goldfarb, Stan Helm, Ruth Sanderson,

Dan Schlegel

Foundation: Larry Cinco

Sgt. at Arms: Suzie DeBusk

Service Chairs: Jean Hender

Salvation Army Bell Ringers: Pat Bouchard

Tree Program: Dan Schlegel

Club Admin./Website: Bruce Heeb

Club Newsletter: Suzie DeBusk

Social Media: Julia Babbitt

Public Relations: Jim Hagerty

Membership Attraction: Beth Gitlin

Membership Engagement: R. Sanderson

International Peace: Ed Baranowski

Youth Exchange: Suzie DeBusk

Interact: Julia Babbitt, Dick Ballantyne

Literacy: Ruth Sanderson

Paperback Project: David Ryan

Nominating: Jay Anderson

Fun: Linda Nelms, Jean Hender

Homestay Program: Suzie DeBusk, Dwan Buie, Susan Cinco, Renie Adams

Historian: Bob Underwood

April 6 2016 The Official Newsletter of the Rotary Club of Indialantic

www.indialanticrotary.org

The Indialantic

Rotator

2016

BREVARD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT REPORT Andy Ziegler, Chairman of the Board of Education

A twenty-six-year member of the Palm Bay Rotary Club, Andy Ziegler was elected to the Brevard County Schools (BCS) Board of Education in 2008. A graduate of Florida Tech with a BS in Computer Science, an engineer at Arte-mis Inc, he is active in several professional, community and educational organizations.

With almost eight years as an elected member of the county-wide Brevard County Schools (BCS) Board of Edu-cation (previously a member of the Board Audit Com-mittee), and presently serving as Chairman, Andy Zieg-ler’s first-hand experiences and personal insights in for-mulating policy, hiring and evaluating the district’s super-

intendent make him unique as a spokesman for public education in Brevard County. His presentation was focused essentially on basic information about our schools – enrollment data (47,000 students); employees (9,000); capital investments (82 schools, 12.8 million square feet of land, 199 busses) amounting to $49M in capital resources and $21M in maintenance costs; and largest consumer of electricity, water and internet services in Bre-vard County.

As to the quality of instruction, the district claims only 2.6% of the total public school enroll-ment in Florida yet has been awarded 30% of the state’s senior academic awards; of the 32 music, art and other academic specialty sites called Demonstration Schools in the state 27of them are located here. And our schools are first overall in per-pupil expenditure, one of the first measures of quality among educational institutions.

Addressing the 2013 contract with Educational Data Resources that the local print media criticized the school board and administrators for cost and lack of oversight in the installation of new software for payroll, accounting and other functions, Andy, with faint rebuke, said the reporting “could have been better.” He added that he personally had investigated another major supplier for the same kind of service package only to find that it would have cost twice as much while being already three years older.

In conclusion, and in response to a question about the district’s position on the current LGBT issue, Andy, in effect, said that the district is committed to providing fair treatment and equality to all students in the Brevard Public Schools and that they should be reassured that their individual rights will be protected.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO MEET APRIL 12

The April meeting of the Board of Directors is scheduled for Tuesday, April 12 at 4:30 P.M. The location will be, as usual, at President Jim Bowen’s’ office at 442 Fourth Ave, Indial-antic.

All officers, Directors and Committee Chairs are requested to attend. Other members are welcome to observe, participate or earn a meeting make-up credit.

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Contact us at: Rotary Club of Indialantic

PO Box 033134 Indialantic, FL 32903

Meet with Other Rotary Clubs

Cocoa—Tuesday 12:15 PM Brevard Community College, Cocoa Cocoa Beach—Wednesday 12:15 PM International Palms, Cocoa Beach Cocoa Beach Day Break—Tue. 7:15 AM Roberto’s Little Havana, Cocoa Beach Eau Gallie—Tuesday 12:15PM KIWI Tennis Club Melbourne—Thursday 6:30 PM Building Management Systems 1675 S. John Rhodes Blvd. Melbourne Beach—Tuesday 7:30 AM Sand on the Beach Restaurant Merritt Island—Thursday 5:15 PM Island Lincoln Mercury Jaguar Land Rover 1850 E. Merritt Island Cswy., Upstairs Merritt Island Breakfast—Wed. 7:15 AM Victoria’s Restaurant Palm Bay—Thursday 12:00 PM Broken Barrel Tavern Rockledge—Thursday 7:15 AM Rockledge Country Club Suntree—Friday 7:30 AM Suntree Country Club Titusville Sunrise -Tuesday 7:15 AM River Lanes, 800 Cheney Hwy. Titusville—Thursday 12:00 PM LaCita Country Club

Rotary Web Sites Rotary Club of Indialantic:

www.indialanticrotary.org

Rotary Leadership Institute: www.rlitraining.org

District 6930 Web Site:

www.rotaryfoundation6930.org

Rotary International:

www.rotary.org

Rotary E-Club One: (on-line Rotary, need to make up

a meeting - great resource) www.rotaryeclubone.org

Need Rotary shirt or other Rotary Items:

ruh.com/rotary

Visitors Jim Barry Dickinson, TX

Rolf Vichover Aachen, Germany

Tom Diberardino Palm Bay

Andy Ziegler Palm Bay

Guests Ben Glover Jim Bowen

Guest Speakers 4/6 Rotarian Glenn "Kraz" Krazney

Explaining mental capacity

04/13 IHB Police Chief David Butler

4/27 Attorney Mark Malak—Intellectual property

5/11 Connie Harvey—American Red Cross

LITERACY PROJECT: JOSH THE BABY OTTER PRESENTATIONS

Josh the Baby Otter Project Chair Pat Bouchard again will be in costume to present our popular Literacy activity on April 26 & 27 at Sea Breeze and Holy Trinity elementary schools, respectively.

Kindergarten students and teachers and, quite likely, some parents, will be in attend-ance. A few volunteers are needed to pass out books and, for Pat’s protection, help with crowd control. The kiddies love to get to her for hugs.

See Pat for more information.

BEQUEST SOCETY AWARD FOLLOW-UP FOR JULIA BABBITT

Club President Jim Bowen, in a follow-up gesture, presented the crystal desk-top award to Past-President and DG Designate Julia Babbitt.

All Society members are recognized for their commitment to donate portions of their accumulated wealth to the Rotary International Foundation. Julia received her pin two weeks ago but she now has her crystal, which is gracing the desk in her office.

BETH GITLIN, RUTH SANDERSON ON CREW OF “HEART AND SOUL” DRAGONBOAT, WIN GOLD MEDAL

Two Cub Members, Beth Gitlin and Ruth Sanderson, are Dragonboat Paddlers with their team “Heart and Soul Paddlers.”

The mission of the team is to promote wellness and fitness for both breast cancer survi-vors and supporters. The team is composed of approximately 60 members, men and women, of all ages. The “Heart and Soul” team has two components: the “Heart and Soul Sisters,” (all breast cancer survivors) and “Heart and Soul Paddlers Gone Wild,” who are supporters. On the weekend of March 19, in competition with other teams from around the nation and Canada, the “Heart and Soul” team participated in the Suncoast International Dragonboat Festival in Sarasota where it captured the gold medal in the breast cancer survivor division.

Congratulations to Beth, Ruth and the “Heart and Soul” team!

“Misunderstanding arising from igno-rance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.” Lester B. Pear-son

“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.” Bertrand Russell

“Fear always springs from ignorance.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

http://www.rotaryfoundation6900.org

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March 30, 2016 Rotary Club Photos

President Jim Bowen Opening the

Day’s Meeting

David Ryan introducing Visitors &

Guests

Pat Bouchard with a Josh the Otter

Program Update

Visiting Rotarian from Aachen, Germany

Presenting His Club’s Flag to Pres. Jim Bowen

Pres. Jim Bowen Presenting an Award to

DGE Julia Babbitt

Glenn-Kraz– Krasny with a Happy $ for the Sgt.

Sue Tyson-Parker with a Comment for

the Sgt.

50-50 Winner Ed Baranowski President Elect Steve Spragins

Introducing the Day’s Speaker