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Geoff Arnold finished his second season for the Frederick Keys, the Class A Advanced affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles. In this role, he serves as the team’s radio play-by-play announcer, works as the club’s primary liaison to the media and assists with Keys marketing initiatives. Prior to joining the Keys, Arnold spent the previous two seasons as the Assistant Director of Broadcasting and Media Relations for the Wilmington Blue Rocks, the Class A Advanced affiliate of the Kansas City Royals and as the Broadcaster and Media Relations Administrator for the Frisco RoughRiders, the Double-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers. A 2010 graduate of Dickinson College, Arnold began his professional career as a minor league baseball umpire in the Gulf Coast League.  Geoff will discuss:
• How minor league baseball and the player development process works
• How are major league and minor league teams run differently
• What a minor league offseason entails for a minor league staff/players
• Keys to the big leagues/what Keys fans can be excited for in 2016
 
 
Alan Grant and Bob Nelson introduce excited third graders to their new Dictionaries/Almanacs and share about Rotary.
 
President Bob Fuhrman presents the Rotary Cookbook to Rotary District Membership Chair Rich Glover for leading the club discussion on membership growth.
 
President Bob Fuhrman thanks guest speaker Dr. Dean Pruitt for his talk on International Negotiations.  Accompanying Dean was his wife France (Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rotarian) and son Paul.  Guests included Benjamin Viray, Ed Feroli and Francine Schwartz.
 
The above children have all undergone middle ear surgery for restoration of hearing in the past two weeks through Ear Care Nepal at Nidan Hospital, Pulchowk, Lalitpur, Nepal.  Funding for 30 children was provided by the Potomac-Bethesda Rotary Club in the amount of $3700.  This project is being done in cooperation with the Rotary Club of Katmandu-Midtown.
 
The Dictionary and Gazetteer is a comprehensive reference book including not only 32,000 words, but also treaties about the environment, facts about land and water conditions in worldwide countries, information about animals that live in nine habitats on seven continents and information about the Earth and its atmosphere.  Let us, as committed Rotarians, make a difference in the quality of life of third grade students and help them, “To Learn to Read and Read to learn.” It is through this literacy program that students can improve their communication skills as well as their quality of life and that of the community-at-large.
District Contact: Nancy C. Mason, District 7620 Coordinator, The Dictionary Project, nszlasa@aol.com
 
Join Alan Grant at these locations:
October 8, 2:30pm, Potomac Elementary School
October 14, 11:15am, Seven Locks Elementary School
October 22, 2:45pm, Wayside Elementary School
October 27, 2:45pm, Waters Landing Elementary School
November 4, 1pm, Poolesville Elementary School
November 12, 1pm, Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy
November 18, 1:45pm, Beverly Farms Elementary School
November 24, 10:45am, Bells Mill Elementary School
Please let Alan know that you plan to come.
 
 
Here is a very easy way to help us with fundraising.  If you are an Amazon shopper please bookmark this link http://pbrotary.org/Page/amazon in your browser and ask your friends and family to do the same.  Whenever you start your Amazon shopping from this page the club gets a percentage.  See the link above for details.  You can also get to it from our website banner at http://pbrotary.org.
 
We now have a page which serves as a launching point to our club’s Foundation.  Check it out at http://pbrotary.org/Page/our-foundation.  You can get to it in three ways from our home page (www.pbrotary.org) : Look for “Foundation” located on the banner or under the menu choices “About Us” or “Services/Projects”. Besides evolving content and links to internal and external resources, on that page we can now accept online donations for everything we do. 
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Foundation
If you shop at Amazon through this link http://smile.amazon.com/ch/52-1264058, Amazon will donate 0.5% of your eligible purchases (millions of products) to the charitable foundation of our club. Thank You!
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