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Good morning ! This week in Kiwaniscope - Saturday, visit the top of the world with our speaker Dr. Michael Hehenberger, welcome Dave Burns, our newest member, see what the Kiwanis elves have done, consider a service opportunity on this Saturday involving gingerbread, and how a Circle K member won $100,000 in tuition on national TV. And beginning at sundown, Hanukkah Sameach!
-Editor
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MEMBERS’ MILESTONES
Martin Mohabeer's birthday is Monday, and Michael Schwartz earns another candle on Wednesday. Happy birthday, Martin and Michael!
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Take a journey to the top of the world with adventurer and Westport resident Michael Hehenberger Dipl. Ing. Ph.D. Dr. Sc.
Since his boyhood climbing the Austrian Alps, Dr. Hehenberger has pursued his fascination with mountain peaks and ranges worldwide. His talk and slide presentation will focus on his latest trip in May to see K2 in the Karakoram mountain range, the second-highest mountain on earth, and Nanga Parbat, the westernmost Himalayan peak and the ninth-highest mountain on Earth.
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Back closer to sea level, Michael spends his time as a physicist and quantum chemist. Dr. Hehenberger led academic and industry research partnerships in computational chemistry, biology, and engineering during his career. His projects focused on molecular biology, information-based medicine, pharmaceutical research, nanomedicine, and AI.
In 2013, he retired from IBM to write books and speak at conferences. His first book, “Nanomedicine: Science, Business, and Impact,” covers the underlying science and the steps needed to take a new biomedical breakthrough from concept to patient benefit. Recent presentations at international conferences included talks on “Big Data Analytics,” “AI – History and Possible Future,” “Quantum Information and Computing,” and “High Mountain Adaptations in Humans and Animals.”
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WELCOME OUR NEWEST KIWANIAN, DAVE BURNS | | |
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The board admitted Dave Burns to membership at its meeting last Saturday. Dallas Kersey met Dave on election day at the polls. In conversation, Dallas learned that Dave had been looking for opportunities to serve and give back, and Dallas recommended Kiwanis to him. Dave remembered Dallas's recommendation when reading Town Hall Happenings recently, and the rest is history.
Dave will be inducted at a future meeting when he and his sponsor, Dallas, can be present, probably at the annual meeting on January 6.
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KIWANIS HOLIDAY WREATH
Organized by the Community Service Committee, members assembled a six-foot holiday wreath and hung it at Weston's historic onion barn after last week's meeting. Dan Lerner, Steve Thomas, Karen Chrisley (bow-maker extraordinaire), and Ray Marsh are pictured nearby. Kiwanis elves not pictured Tom Failla, Tom Johnson, Frank Ferrara, and Tom Watson (behind the lens).
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FUN VOLUNTEER SLOTS OPEN
Have an hour or two to make a difference? There are still volunteer slots open to support the Weston Women's League family gingerbread event at the Weston Field Club this Saturday afternoon. A beneficiary of patrons of this event is Family & Children's Agency.
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Next Saturday, December 16, 2023
Holiday breakfast meeting. 🕎🎅🏻
Norfield Congregational Church parish hall 8:30 a.m.
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Saturday, December 23, 2023
NO MEETING
Norfield Congregational Church parish hall 8:30 a.m.
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Saturday, December 30, 2023
NO MEETING
Norfield Congregational Church parish hall 8:30 a.m.
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Saturday, January 6, 2024
Breakfast and Annual Club Meeting for Elections (NO SPEAKER)
Norfield Congregational Church parish hall 8:30 a.m.
Foundation Annual Meeting
Norfield Congregational Church parish hall 9:30 a.m. (immediately following the annual club meeting for elections.
Club Board Meeting
Norfield Congregational Church parish hall 10 a.m.
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Saturday, January 13, 2024
Breakfast meeting.
Norfield Congregational Church parish hall 8:30 a.m.
Foundation trustees and officers monthly meeting
Norfield Congregational Church parish hall 10 a.m.
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Saturday, January 20, 2024
Breakfast meeting. NO SPEAKER - food drive today.
Norfield Congregational Church parish hall 8:30 a.m.
Food Drive
Weston Shopping Center 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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Saturday, January 27, 2024
Breakfast meeting.
Norfield Congregational Church parish hall 8:30 a.m.
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NEW ENGLAND AND BERMUDA DISTRICT | |
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NEW ENGLAND AND BERMUDA DISTRICT EVENTS
Midwinter Conference, March 8-10, 2024, Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Kiwanis Cruise Boston, Bermuda, Bar Harbor, Boston sailing May 17-24, 2024, on the Norwegian Gem
District Convention, August 15-18, 2024, Springfield, Massachusetts
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2024 CONVENTION
Denver, Colorado
July 3-6, 2024
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CKI member wins nationally televised tuition contest | Kiwanis International congratulates Andrew Jiminez, a member of Circle K International - our Service Leadership Program for university students - for winning US$100,000 in tuition during college football's SEC Championship Game on Saturday. | | |
News and other content contributions from individual members, committees, the club board, and the foundation are requested. Please identify as such and email to kiwaniscope@westonkiwanis.org before noon every Wednesday.
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PO BOX 1033
WESTON, CT 06883-0033
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Kiwaniscope is published weekly for the members and friends of the Kiwanis Club of Weston on Thursday mornings September through June by the Kiwanis Club of Weston, Connecticut, Inc. | | | | |
