The Rotary Club of Westlake Bay Village held its weekly Wednesday meeting on June 12, 2024. The meeting was a hybrid with 21 participants meeting via zoom and in person.
President-Maver called the meeting to order at 7:31 a.m., began with a prayer followed by the
Pledge of Allegiance and the Rotary Four-Way Test.
Bob welcomed everyone to the meeting, and introduced our speaker, Greg Palumbo, and our Westlake scholarship winner, Elizabeth Carroll and her mother, Melanie.
Scott Goggin and Joe Kraft presented Elizabeth with a check for $3000 for the scholarship winner for Westlake. Elizabeth thanked the club and told us about her high school achievements and
her plans for next year. She plans to attend Miami U. and study architecture.
Club news:
The next Art Fest committee meeting is scheduled for July 11 th at 6:00 pm in the library. Jeff has a sign up sheet for jobs the day of the event, and Patty is making a last push for sponsorships. Please contact them with any questions.
Bob thanked Amy for arranging the installation dinner at Arrabiata’s. It was a lovely evening as Andrew was sworn in as our next President.
Bob announced that a $500 donation was approved for Empower Sports.
Andrew reported that we gave 2010 diapers to Providence House on the fifth Wednesday in May, bringing our total donations to almost 20,000
diapers since we began.
Our speaker today was Greg Palumbo, Executive Director of the Soldiers and Sailors monument on Public Square.
The Soldiers & and Sailors Monument commemorates the American Civil War;it consists of a 125' column surrounded at its base by a Memorial Room and esplanade. The column, topped with a statue of the Goddess of Freedom, defended by the Shield of Liberty, signifies the essence of the Nation for which Cuyahoga County veterans were willing to and did give their lives.
Four bronze groupings on the esplanade depict, in battle scenes, the Navy, Artillery, Infantry and Cavalry.
Inside the Memorial Room are four bronze relief sculptures: Women's Soldiers and Sailors Aid Society, Beginning of the War in Ohio, Emancipation
of the Slaves and End of the War at City Point, Va., as well as busts of Gen. James Barnett and Architect/ Sculptor Levi T. Scofield, together with 6
officers, who were either killed in action, or died of disease or their wounds.
The monument was opened on July 4, 1874, and is about to celebrate its’ 131 year.
To learn more, visit www.soldiersandsailors.com
We did not have time for our happy thoughts and the meeting adjourned at 8:28