Phather Phil’s Prayer
Heavenly Father this is the time of the year to count our blessings. We just enjoyed the spirit of Thanksgiving with friends or family. Which should have reminded us of all the people that are hungry and those who were alone. In our prayers, let us remember how fortunate we are to have a roof over our heads, food on the table, clothes on our back and all our Optimist friends. We are blessed and give thanks to You. Continue to be with us and may we be a blessing to others – especially the youth. Amen!
Today’s Guests
| Guest | Guest Of |
| Terri Oroszi | Speaker |
| Doug Reno | Carolyn Taylor |
All Photos from the Meeting are Here
Committee Announcements
Christy Gariety, chair of Adopt-A-Child, announced that all 36 children have been picked by members and will have a better Christmas.
Myron Rheaume, chair of PGI and PDP Development programs, announced he is always happy to explain and help with PDP and PGI.
Mike Bevis announced that a new Optimist club is being started at St Leonard’s.
Casey Wycoff, chair of Communication Contest for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing, announced that she is looking for participants so please let her know of anyone who is eligible for this opportunity. You can give them her contact information as well. There were only 8 in the state last year but her goal is to have 8 in our region this year. The Optimist Ohio District awards a $3500 scholarship to the winner. Additionally, Casey said she can use more volunteers who can communicate with American Sign Language to judge the contest.
Donna Huss announced that Gary Hansen, chair of the Will Cale Scholarship Committee, is still looking for more mentors so that we can help more students.
Laurie Poeppelman, chair OptiGear merchandise sales, announced that some OptiGear merchandise is here and the rest will be in next week.
Greg Griffin, Christmas tree lot chair, said we have sold 25% of the trees in just 4 days. If you are scheduled for a shift, please show up and if you can’t, try to find a substitute.
Beth Duncan reminded everyone about the December 11th Holiday Party at the Presidential Center (Kettering), and the Dinner and a Mystery on Dec 28th @ 7pm @ the Spaghetti Warehouse. She also announced that the entertainment for the Holiday Party will be a local dance company performing excerpts of Nutcracker.
Today’s Speaker
Donna Huss introduced Terry L. Oroszi, M.S., Ed.D., Assistant Professor, Pharmacology & Toxicology; Director, MS Graduate Program, P&T, BSOM; Director, CBRN Defense Certificate Program at Wright State University. She is also a faculty member at the medical center. She has authored two books about terrorism so far with another about to be released. She has also published several articles.
Terry spoke at our lunch on July 10, 2018 about worldwide terrorism and terrorists.
She was here today to discuss terrorists in and from Ohio.
The definition of Terrorism is individuals and groups that want to change the way a group lives. A typical American citizen must commit a crime to be arrested. A terrorist can be arrested for showing intent to commit a crime.
Typical Terrorist Profiles
- Most terrorists are male. Of the few women that are terrorists, their terrorist acts tend to be deadlier.
- 64% of terrorists have STEM related Educated people with money are more interested in being a terrorist because the poor are too busy trying to earn money for food.
- A sizable portion of American Terrorists have converted to Islam.
She showed and discussed with us several pictures of terrorists from Ohio. She plans to visit prisons and interview convicted terrorists to see if they are still radicalized. So far there, are 29 male and 3 female terrorists from Ohio.
Very few people are charged with terrorism. More often they are charged with material support. A person can be arrested for trying to join ISIS.
Terrorists often target military installations, public places and bridges.
Birthdays
| Member | Birthday |
| Nancy Lehren | December 05 |
| Bill DeShurko | December 06 |
| Matt Somerlot | December 07 |
| Sarah Umbreit | December 07 |
| Jeff Umbreit | December 08 |
| Pat Arehart | December 10 |
Membership Anniversaries
| Member | Month | Day | Joined | # Years |
| Roberta Taylor | December | 6 | 12/6/1995 | 23 |
| Paul Boeckman | December | 9 | 12/9/1994 | 24 |
| Roland Rapp | December | 10 | 12/10/2002 | 16 |
New Member Readings and Inductions
| Name | Sponsor | 1st 2nd 3rd Reading or Induction |
| Ron Kuker | Charlie Tapp | Induction |
| Andy Dickerson | Andrew McKenzie | Induction |
| Rik Altvater | Greg Wasmund | 3rd Reading |
| Gareth Dickey | Gary Hansen | 3rd Reading |
| Sue Zammit | Greg Griffin | 3rd Reading |
| Erin Dickerson | Andy Dickerson | 3rd Reading |
Sergeants at Arms
| Member | Infraction |
| Donna Huss | Auctioning lost and found items from tree lot delivery day |
| John Speers | Showing up for the tree lot at the wrong time – that is OK though, feel free to volunteer for any shift! |
| Don Wildenhaus | Aggressively stealing the gavel out of Donna’s protective bag |
| Ron Kuker | Welcome to the club, this is how fines work |
| Scott Langer | Very suspicious amount of attention from our guest speaker on terrorism |
| Andy Dickerson | Using the CNO meetings as a cheap date with his wife Erin |
| Donna Huss | Mispronounced Ron Kuker’s name (it’s pronounced “Keeker”) |
Happy Bucks!
| Member | Reason |
| Bob Duffy | OSU beat Michigan last Saturday |
| Sue Brubaker | Ellie Parker is doing better |
| Mike Bevis | Bob Burkman for making special trip to open the tree lot for his team |
| Beth Duncan | Cleveland Browns beat the Cincinnati Bengals last Sunday |
| Brian Nolan | Bill Stone surgery went well |
| Don Wildenhaus | Third granddaughter born 4 months ago, first grandson born a month ago, TOP Soccer just finished our 21st year |
| Christy Gariety | With the bad weather coming for tonight she is glad the tree lot has people to work tonight and it is not her |
| Art Hung | Basketball player Jeremy Lin now has over 5,000 career points |
| Anne Kessler | Glad she wasn’t fined for not making it to a CNO lunch meeting for a year |