Greg Peschel introduced Ingram I.S.D. superintendent Bobby Templeton as our speaker last Wednesday. Bobby is a former member of our club and previously was the principal at Tivy high School. Bobby described the way Ingram ISD is addressing security at their campus in light of events in our country over the last several years. Ingram has 74 video cameras dispersed throughout the various buildings, athletic complex, and entrance to the campus. Upon entering the campus, your picture is taken and in addition to being visible to the administration, the pictures also go to Ingram police vehicles and headquarters.
Ingram wants to give their kids a reason to say no to drugs, so they have random drug testing and drug sniffing dogs make the rounds. Ingram is one of four schools in Texas that initiated a School Marshal program this year. The marshals are possible because of a new classification of law enforcement officer that was recently authorized by the Texas legislature. The five marshals have a badge and a gun, and were already school staff, although their identity is not publicized to the general public. This past summer, they went through an intensive training, including psychological test and profile, concealed handgun carry training, first aid training, and non violent deescalation training.
Tammy Prout was the most recent Rotarian of the year, and now has the plaque to go with it. Tammy is also in line to become president of our club in a couple of years.
Tomorrow we have another great speaker, Jeffrey Jensen, FBI Special Agent, coming to talk to us about business account takeovers. In order to give him as much time as possible for his presentation, I will be starting the meeting around 11:55 instead of 12:10 so please try to be on time. We will not have time for much club business so I'm going to give you the announcements via email now:
1. Pints for Polio was a success! What a fun event! Amanda Taylor is one of our newer Rotarians and she did a FANTASTIC job planning this event. The music was superb, the food was tasty, and the beverages were top notch. We will have those final figures for you next week. If you missed the event and still want to donate, please see either Amanda Taylor, Kristy Vandenberg, or myself.
2. We need volunteers who would like to help with the Veterans Breakfast on November 7th which is just 2 weeks away! If you would like to help, please email Donna Peterson at donna@joecookagency.com.
3. We have the Schreiner basketball mixer on November 8th. If you want details about this get with Kristy Vandenberg.
4. Our Christmas Party will be December 12th. Please save the date. It will be held this year at the Inn of the Hills.
5. Superball planning has begun! If you are interested in helping plan our big fundraising event, please get with Charlie McIlvain or Amber Thomason to find out how you can help. Save the date of February 2, 2019. As you know this is our main fundraiser and our goal is to raise $50,000 that we use for scholarships for local high school and college students and to run our other projects like Blue Santa, Veterans initiatives, advanced training grants for First Responders, Chalk Fest sponsorship, Harper 5K walk/run, etc. It's a fun event with food trucks with awesome food, drinks, and other tailgating events!
6. Christmas is quickly approaching. Dave Samuel will be looking for volunteers soon to ring the bell for Salvation Army at Gibson's. Stay tuned for additional information soon.
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Club Administrator: Caroline Wilson, (512) 787-7964