July 19, 2012 Volume 2, Issue 1 Exchange Club of Montgomery www.montexchange.net

The Exchange Club of Montgomery July 19, 2012

UPCOMING EVENTS

Bingo Volunteers This Week Friday-July 20th-Wiley Cutts

Tuesday-July 24th-Tommy Hollimon

2012-2013 President: Wiley Cutts

President-Elect: Maureen Murphy

Secretary: Rhonda Cope

Treasurer: Rudy Ohme

Past-President: Henry Davis, Jr.

AUGUST-Begin Meeting every 1st and 3rd

Thursdays at The Farmer’s Market Café.

TODAY’S MEETING President-Elect Maureen Murphy led today’s meeting and welcomed

everyone. President Wiley Cutts was attending a workshop in Prattville

today. Rhonda Cope led club members in prayer and Wanda Robinson led us

in the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. We were delighted to have Jess

Hawthorne visiting the club today. He updated club members on his travels

and sale of his house in Montgomery. He plans to travel to Germany to visit

relatives in Wiesbaden in the near future. Mike Murphy also visited the club,

and was celebrating his 72nd

birthday. Maureen announced that The

Montgomery Advertiser and The Montgomery Independent both featured a

story and picture of Madeline Pendley, the Montgomery Exchange Club

Youth of the Year and the ADEC Youth of the Year winner.

Our speaker today was Larry Newton, 2009 Huntingdon Political Science

major and former Scheduler/Operations Manager for the Kay Ivey Campaign

in 2010 and Operations Manager for the current Commissioner of Agriculture

and Industries for the state of Alabama. Larry served as 2009 National Vice-

Chief of the Order of the Arrow, and is very active in local, state, and

national Boy Scouts of America programs and troops. Larry spoke of the

history of the positive economic impacts on the state of Alabama, including

the location of the Mercedes, Hyundai, and Airbus factories in the state and

commented on how agribusiness remains the number one industry in the

state. He gave an excellent review of the current economic status of

industry/agribusiness in Alabama, with suggestions for improvement via

individual service through organizations such as Exchange Club. Thank you,

Larry, for an informative and positive talk!

FUTURE SPEAKERS

Next Meeting-July 26th:

ADEC President-Elect

Tommy Holliman and

President-Elect Maureen

Murphy give a report on

the 94th National Exchange

Club Convention in

Chandler, AZ.

Aug. 2-Jeff Shearer

WSFA Sports

Aug. 16-ADEC President

Joyce Franklin

PICTURES FROM OUR JUNE NATIONAL EXCHANGE CLUB

CONVENTION

Chandler, AZ July 11-14, 2012

Tommy Holliman and Maureen Murphy, along with 4 Collegiate Exchange Club of

Huntingdon students represented Montgomery Exchange at the national

convention in July in Chandler, AZ. Three seminars on Collegiate Exchange Club

building were presented by the Collegiate Club at national.

MONTGOMERY

EXCHANGE CLUB

2012-2013

Officers

President-Wiley Cutts

Pres.-Elect-Maureen Murphy

Secretary-Rhonda Cope

Treasurer-Rudy Ohme

2012-2013

Board of Directors

Mike Deep

Dr. John Neill

Derrick Cunningham

Rhonda Cope

2013 National

Convention will

be in Greensboro, NC

The Exchange Club of Montgomery www.montexchange.net

2012-13 national President Lou Molitor’s

Exchange Club logo and theme.