April 8, 2009 Meeting

Schenectady ARC Director of employment services spoke to Kiwanis members on the benefits of the organization's School to Work program offering exciting challenges for students of special education.  For further information about this program you may contact Jill LaFlamme by emailing her at: JillL@arcschenectady.org or visit the website at: http://www.arcschenectady.org/ 

April 15 2009 Meeting



At the noon meeting today, we had the pleasure of a wonderful guest speaker, Executive Director Margaret "Peggy" Anderton from Bethesda House.  A former Kiwanis member now involved in a $ 1.5 million dollar building project for her program explained the need for their expansion to continue with the vision of, "A just, compasionate and inclusive community rooted in the inherent dignity of all people".  The building project slated to soon begin will provide housing and advoacy for participants who suffer from homelessness, mental health issues and lack of opportunity to make individual  possitive changes.  The program lives by the philosophy that housing is the first fundamental need of homeless people to begin recovery of dignity and wellness.  For further details about the program please click on the link www.bethesdahouseschenectady.org.  


April 22, 2009 Meeting


Elaine  Santore, Director for Umbrella of the Capital District provided excellent information on her program aimed at helping disabled and seniors with professional assistance so they may remain independant in the community.   For a sliding scale annual fee members have access to home inspection, 24 hour home emergency phone line, information and referral.  Other services include repair work and home maintance as well as, grocery shopping, transprotation and meal preparation for a fee.  For further details go to www.theumbrella.org

June 17, 2009 Meeting   



Peter Russo, guest speaker on Long Term Care, is presented with a certificate of appreciation from Steve Mathes, Past Kiwanis President for information given on insurance costs and alternatives for financial coverge of residential nursing care. Mr. Russo works with the New York Long Term Care insurance program dedicated to assisting state residents with financial coverage. 

July 8, 2009 Meeting 



Kathy Hernandez, administrator for the Heritage Home for Women spoke to Kiwanis members about the women's home, its origin and historical presence in the community for over 140 years.  For further details visit their website at http://www.heritagehome4women.net/

July 15, 2009 Meeting



Sujata N. Chaudhry, Special Events Coordinator for the Northeastern New York Alzheimer's Association, provided excellent information on the efforts in the area to address the disease of alzheimer's. Wendy Voelker, President Elect of Kiwanis presents her with a certificate of appreciation.  For further information please visit the website at http://www.alz.org/northeasternny or you may contact Sujata at sujata.chaudhry@alz.org or call the 24 Hour Helpline: 1-800-272-3900. Participate in the local Walk for Alzheimer's on September 26, 2009 by visiting the link at http://www.capitalregion.kintera.org/  


August 26,2009 Meeting


Gary Comley, Associate Superintendent of the Schenectady City School District presented an excellent program noting the progress and merits of the high school programs and the hard work being done to move forward as a school of excellence.  Present were students who graduated in June of 2009 and the recipients of Kiwanis Foundation grants.

October 21, 2009 Meeting 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jim Hurley, Executive Director of Home Instead Senior Care. Jim grew up in Clifton Park and spent 30 years in the hotel business traveling extensively until family responsibilities of aging parents became a priority. Out of compassion for parents, he became involved with the Home Instead Senior Care program which he is now owner and executive director of in the local area. The program is structured to provide home based care to the elderly for needs other than medical.

For further details, go to  http://www.homeinstead.com/. Costs vary from weekday 
to weekend hourly rates. Services are provided from a minimum of 3 hours to 24 hours of care. They have 105 caregivers with 85 clients with billing over 1 million dollars annually. A very helpful and important topic. Thanks, Jim!

October 28, 2009 

 

 

Doug McPhee  

 

We are very pleased to have with us at Schenectady Kiwanis, Doug McPhee one of our newest members.  He has a rich background in teaching and educational consulting and not supprisingly has been a longtime member of Kiwanis from Del Mar, California.  He was previously involved with Key Club and Circle K, most likely inspired by his father who was the Lt. Governor for the High Desert district of Calfornia, Nevada and Hawaii.  

His father was a Navy Chaplain and mother a missionary. They met at Berkeley Baptist Divinity School. He has  two older brothers. His dad grew up in a Mormon/Presbyterian home in Salt Lake as the youngest of
10. His mother grew up in LA with a Salvation Army/Baptist background and Catholic stepmother.

 

Doug was born and lived in San Diego, Kodiak, Alaska, Corpus Christi, Texas, Guantanamo Bay Cuba, Norfolk Virginia, Villefranche France, Barstow California, back to San Diego for 40+ years.  He went to 7 schools: Flour Bluff, G. T. Sampson, Shelton Park, Thoroughgood, Cannes Anglo American School, Dreux American HS, and Barstow High and lived in 21 different houses, hotels, apartments, condos, and villas, including a boat.

He went to Cal Western, USIU, San Diego State, UCSD, UCLA, Taught at Alabama A&M, National, SDSU, Cuyamaca College, University of Alaska, Seattle Pacific University, UCLA .

 

Doug taught 7 different grades in 4 different school with18 years in Del Mar Union School District and 2 years in Orange County Dept of education.  He received a  BA from Cal Western, teaching credential from USIU and a masters from UCLA

He has consulted with over 60 schools and Districts from Alaska to Florida to New York to California. Provided training and consulting for Allstate Insurance, Farmers Insurance, TJX (TJ Max, Marshalls, Home Goods AJ Wright and Winners in Canada), Pfizer, Qualcomm, The Ken Blanchard Companies, Borg Warner, Aguron Pharma, WD 40, and a number of other companies.

 

Doug has two houses in San Diego. One is owned with his brothers and the other is his prior residence in Cardiff.

According to Doug,
"I do three things presently: I travel about 75000 miles a year on business,

meeting planning with Experient, booking events for clients all over the country and internationally

Consulting on learning design and training & presentations for companies and organizations, and

Executive coaching for business owners and executives in large and small companies

 

In addition we are still renovating our old farmhouse and barn in Duanesburg

5 Secrets:

1.      49 states by age 13.

2.      Awarded Meeting Planner of the year in 2006,

3.      Written four books,

4.      Designed Powerful Learning workshop for Ken Blanchard Companies, and

5.      I was executive director for two non-profit organizations.