Chips August 8th, 2016

Trisha Coates of The Vermont State Colleges Board

Speaker:

Jeb Spaulding, Chancellor of VT State Colleges

 

Lou said he is fining himself for calling Maria, "Marie", for 15 years and not realizing her name was Maria. He then complimented all Rotarians who helped at the military bbq over the weekend and especially highlighted Will and Stephanie for their outstanding contributions.

Tom Fine Lou for appearing in a recent publication

Cale bragged about the Perseid meteor shower that will happen on Thursday, but also invited everyone to Castleton on Tuesday Night for a lesson at their observatory.

Bob went to Rotary Youth Exchange training in Wallingford over the weekend and had high praises to return to Caprice from others who were there

Joe bragged about his daughter who will be landing in Boston shortly from a 7 week trip in Europe and that she has gotten a job teaching 5th grade in West Rutland!
Chuck bragged for his wife and daughter who both ran a half marathon over the weekend!

Terry went to a reunion in Ontario from the village he is originally from. Instead of a class reunion, the town welcomes back anyone who came from there originally. Said that over 40 Morans were in attendance!

Nick is having a family reunion and expecting over 50 Carmolis. He will be going to Red Sox game with his son's this weekend thanks to the Rotary raffle tix!

Mike had last Friday off for the first time in a while, but really happy with the success of the Friday Night Live events. Sawyer Fredricks had 2,000 people out and about! He reminded everyone of the Downtown Movies playing at The Paramount. Cool Running's is screening tomorrow at 7pm, Free admission.

Barb bragged for Art In The Park and said it was a success. Also bragged for Will, who won the raffle at Art in Park for a round of golf for 4 at RCC. Encouraged others to buy raffle tickets for this event because it is easy to win as not many participate in it.

Tom thanked Trisha, our guest, for all she did for The Rutland Region during his time at The Chamber.

Win bragged for the friend of his daughter who competed over the weekend in The Olympics. She didn't win, but heck of a race.

 

Lou provided not one, but TWO medical tips! First off, Breakfast isn't actually the most important meal of the day. That was contrived in the 30's by none other than Kellogg. Go figure haha. Secondly, meat was thought to lead to promiscuity. Not true.

Caprice said it's the last week for the Dream Center's raffle for 10 lobsters. Tickets are only $5.

 

 

Stephanie filled in during Krista's absence as acting president and provided us with the following info/updates:

The bbq over the weekend for the military families was very successful. Over 60 families were there.

We received a thank you from Michelle Beam from Girl Scouts who spoke last week. She invited anyone interested to attend a Cocktails and cookies event in the Burlington Area to learn more about helping the Girl Scouts.

The board is scheduled to meet this Thursday at Noon. Chamber Board Room

 

$45 in small pot, $1400 in big pot.

Mike won the little one, not so lucky on the big one.

 

Chancellor of VT State Colleges, Jeb Spaulding. Jeb said that the system enrolls over 12,000 students a year and employees close to 2,000 staff members. Jeb is no stranger to serving in the public sphere, having served as a state senator, State Treasurer, and I believe Secretary of State. He never dreamed of becoming the Chancellor of VT State Colleges, it just kind of happened. He said he is a great example of life taking you in a direction you would never have expected. He was initially suggested the idea by the former chancellor as he was going out the door toward retirement and really propositioned by Dave Wolk and Jerry Diamond. Vermont has the highest number of state colleges per capita in the country. They have enrolled more Vermonters than any other higher-ed system in the state. UVM has about a 20% Vermonter student make-up, the rest are out of state students. Jeb feels that VT State Colleges are the extension of the state's k-12 education program and many of their students are first generation college students. Moody's is anticipating the rate of college closures in this country to triple within the next ten years, primarily fueled by a shrinking population of graduating high school seniors. Castleton is 17% ahead of last year's deposits at this point in time, which is fantastic. He attributed the boom to wrestling taking off as a new athletic endeavor available on campus, but also Dave Wolk's vision. Their ultimate mission is to try and get more kids to go on to college so they have a chance to improve their quality of life and the communities in-which they live and work.