Club President Kristin Keller welcomed members and guests to the meeting at USCB Hilton Head
Kevin Courtney offered the prayer and led the pledge to the flag
 
Announcements:
Founders Night will be June 23 at Spring Lake. We will have the Spring raffle drawing that night.  Tickets for the raffle will be available next week.  Tickets are $20.  The proceeds from this raffle will allow us to complete our debt to the Island Rec Center.
 
We don't know how much we made from working at Heritage
 
We made $2700 working at Wing Fest
 
Member Ron Sandlin has retired and is relocating to NC. His wife, who also retired after many years of teaching, is very ill and is at MUSC.  
 
Chris Crosby - scholarship 22-23 recipient - was in attendance and updated us on his year.  He is a sports and entertainment management major and made the Dean's List last year. He was striving for the President's List the last semester and missed it by a very small margin, however is striving for President's list for next year.  Good Luck Chris and thank you for attending our meeting and keeping us informed of your studies
 
Suzi Oliver, Sergeant at Arms, collected Happy $$
 
Speaker:
Dr. Matthew Adams, Professor of History at Savannah State, spoke about modern European history/Poland and Ukraine Aid. Dr. Adams speaks 4 languages and is head of Poland based agency helping Ukrainian refugees..  
 
His wife and children were born in the Ukraine and he lived there for a time.  He has helped many of the friends he has made there.  His in=laws were living in Ukraine just before the war started and initially wouldn't leave, but right before the war started they got on a train to Kiev.  His in-laws are Russian speakers and were going to Moscow. While on the train, war broke out and they stayed at Kiev for a week and he flew over to Poland and eventually got them to the US.   At the time, men under 60 were not able to leave the country. Dr. Adams told several stories of his friend in Ukraine and how his organization was able to find them places to stay and how they were able to come to the US. Some of the efforts were hampered by people refusing to leave their homes.  Those that wanted to leave often had to follow perilous, non-direct routes, some through Moscow, others through Georgia and Turkey until they could be brought to the US.  His organization is Polafunds and donations are monitored to make sure they are going to the right people.