Ken Kleva	Mark Walters
Margaret Sorrell Walters	Dr. Grimes Byerly
Al Lee	J.C. Epting
Les Bird	Ron Simmons
Rev. John Woodard	Rod Herbert
Rick Hammer	Wendell Cramer
Harrison Jahn	Jim Tillman
Eric Johnston	Chris Rendleman
Doug Dreyer	Dr. Tom Warren
Charles Dixon	Landon Lane
Bill Barkley	Dick Washer
Frank Ryan	Molly Ryan
Bill  Straka	Mark Vollinger
Frank Willis	Helen Devlin
Teresa Foster	Ugo Bertolami (Before induction as a new member)
Oscar Sorcia (Circle K)	Joshua Boone (Circle K)
Dale Hamilton (Circle K)	Jonathan Agreda (Circle K)
Regina Huber (Ron Simmon’s administrator)
Thanks to Ron Simmons for captaining this effort.

January 8– Tom Jacobik, Manager of Google operations in the Carolinas, spoke about the new Google operations in Lenoir.  They are placing a great deal of emphasis on education and have collaborated with the community college in Caldwell County to improve the  IT (information technology) program, which recently graduated a class of 65, of which 6 were hired by Google.  Do No Evil is the motto of Google and they are trying to apply that in Lenoir with a stress on local hiring.  Already 350 workers at an average salary of $38,000 are employed, mostly in construction at this point.  $600 million is being invested and the data servers will soon be tested with the first building expected to be fully operational by the end of the year.

January 15– Donna Mull, Catawba County Extension Agent, presented information about the 4-H club activities. She was accompanied by two teenagers, Mattie Moulton and Ethan Hefner, who had projects raising Angus cattle and horses.

 

The mid-year conference is to be held in Myrtle Beach on February 1-3.

Dick Washer was prominently mentioned in a newspaper item about the Catawba Valley Camera Club. He took first place for one photo and tied for second place for another in the Accomplished division of the annual competition for prints of photographs taken at club-sponsored field trips during the year.

The golf committee reminds everyone that the tournament will soon be here and sponsors and teams are needed for this very important event.