National best-selling author Mark Sullivan, author of the acclaimed novels The Last Green Valley and Beneath the Scarlet Sky, spoke to the Exchange Club on May 17th. Sullivan enthralled the audience with stories from his life and how he managed to track down the material for his two most recent books. The Last Green Valley was particularly relevant to today’s world events since it takes place in the Ukraine. Sullivan was able to place current events into context for the audience through his knowledge of the Ukrainian landscape and people.
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The Butte Exchange Club, sponsor of the Butte High School Excel Club, announced the winners of two major awards to Excel Club members at the Butte Exchange Club meeting on May 3rd. Carly Trefts, a graduating senior, was selected as the winner of the annual Excel Club scholarship of $1,000 for her outstanding involvement and leadership in the Butte High Excel Club. Carly is planning to Study Civil Engineering at Montana State University.
Sophie Archibald, a graduating senior and the president of the Excel Club, received the Butte Exchange Club Member of the Year Award (formerly known as the Exchangite of the Year). This award is given to the person who has contributed most to the Butte Exchange Club over the past year. Both Exchange Club and Excel Club members can be considered for this award. Through Sophie’s leadership the Excel Club has grown to 30 members and she has rallied the Excel Club members to help the Butte Exchange Club with the National Day of Service, Field of Honor, Give a Kid a Flag to Wave, Child Abuse Prevention and Veterans support projects. She plans to attend the University of Washington and to study statistics and political science. Sophie is the first Excel Club member in the Butte Exchange Club’s long history to win this award!
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April was Child Abuse Prevention Month and the results of the Club’s activities have now been tallied. The Club’s annual “Diaper Drive” resulted in the donation of 20 large boxes of diapers and wipes to the New Hope Center. The Club’s share of the proceeds from the weekly 50-50 drawings, amounting to $75, was donated to the Butte Food Bank for diapers and child care items. Also, the Club made a $1,000 cash donation, $250 each to Butte 4C’s, Big Brothers and Sisters of Butte, New Hope Center and the Child Evaluation Center, to assist in their efforts to help prevent child abuse.
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The Garbage Gang continues to meet on Thursday morning at 8:30 AM at Perkins Restaurant for stimulating conversation, typically followed by some mild exercise cleaning our local streets and highways or painting and repairing buildings at the World Museum of Mining. This winter the group painted the floor of the Museum Headquarters building and installed a newly fabricated period sign on the Richards Funeral Home. On Thursday March 31 the group held its first litter pickup of the season. Jim Stilwell, Ernie Richards, Dave Daugherty, Lee Walsh, John McBride and volunteer Jay Cornish removed a pickup truck full of litter from only a block or so along Howard Street. It’s been a month and the Howard Street location is ready for another clean-up already.
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The Exchange Club FunRaiser held on April 1, 2022 was a great success. About 100 people attended the dinner and live and silent auction held at the Butte Country Club. John Emeigh, a local TV reporter, provided entertainment and laughter as our master of ceremonies. Father Tom Haffey, Chair of the FunRaiser, Committee picked April Fools Day for this event with the theme of “April Fools Fun on the First”. He kept the audience laughing with his April Fools Day jokes. Bidding was enthusiastic for the 15 live auction items and more than 40 items in the silent auction and the Club raised more money than in the years prior to the pandemic!
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On Saturday June 11th the Butte Exchange Club will be helping out the Butte Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol hold a fundraiser pancake breakfast during the Butte Wings and Wheels fly-in and car show at the Bert Mooney Airport. The Butte Exchange Club has agreed to help cook and serve the breakfast. The Civil Air Patrol will provide all supplies. We have agreed to staff two shifts, from 6:00 to 8:30 am and 8:15 am to 10:45 am. Sign-up by contacting club member John Chioutsis.
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This winter, the Garbage Gang continued its work at the World Museum of Mining. The hardworking group, including Jim Stilwell, Pat Cooney, Ernie Richards, Dave Daugherty and volunteer Jay Cornish, painted the floor of the Museum Headquarters building.
In late March, the Garbage Gang completed its work on the Mining Museum’s Knights of Pythias Building and the Richards Funeral Home which Club members painted last summer. Jim Stilwell, Dave Daugherty and Ernie Richards installed a newly painted period sign on the Richards Funeral Home.
Spring is here and the Garbage Gang is starting to pick up litter, now that the snow is mostly melted. On Thursday March 31 the group held its first litter pickup of the season. Jim Stilwell, Ernie Richards, Dave Daugherty, Lee Walsh, John McBride and volunteer Jay Cornish removed a pickup truck full of litter from only a block or so along Howard Street.
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This year’s Youth of the Year and ACE Award Luncheon was held on March 22nd in the lobby of the Burt Mooney Airport in Butte. The Butte Exchange Club has had a long-standing association with the airport including installing the first landing lights at the airport in the 1920’s. Keith Miller, Principal of East Middle School and a former Butte Exchange Club Youth of the Month was the Keynote Speaker for the luncheon attended by approximately 50 Club members and guests.
The theme for this year’s National Exchange Club Youth of the Year Program is: “The COVID-19 Pandemic drastically changed every aspect of our lives, in every imaginable way. Reflecting on what you learned during this time about yourself, your community and the world, explain how your perspectives on success, empathy, prioritizing, social inequities, and leadership have been reshaped.”
Seven Butte students submitted essays in response to this theme and filled out detailed applications which documented their student activities and community service. Sydnie Byrnes, a senior at Butte High School and a 4.0 student, was selected as the Butte Exchange Club Youth of the Year and the recipient of a $2,000 scholarship.
The other scholarship award presented was the ACE Award which stands for Accepting the Challenge of Excellence and is awarded to Butte’s turn-around student of the year. Our three candidates made their presentations to the Club on February 22nd. Evan Pentacost described the impact of losing both of his parents in an automobile crash with a drunk driver when he was 6 years old. McKinsie Mason talked about the unexpected loss of her father from a fall when she was a young teenager. The final candidate, Max Demaris, talked about losing an eye due to a tumor.
Evan Pentacost was selected as the ACE Award winner. He received a $1,500 scholarship sponsored by the Butte Exchange Club and New Horizon Technologies. Evan also received the Rosa Family Scholarship in the amount of $1,500 and the Susan Welsch Memorial Scholarship sponsored by the Resodyn Corporation in the amount of $1,000 for an overall scholarship totaling $4,000.
McKensie Mason and Max DeMaris each received General Exchange Club scholarships in the amount of $1,250 sponsored through the generosity of Exchange Club members Andy Durkin, Lee Walsh, Todd Johnson, Tom Daniel and Doug Rotundi.
Evan Pentacost, ACE Award winner(far right). McKinsie Mason and Max Demaris, General Exchange Club Scholarship winners with Chris Rosa, Chair of ACE Award CommitteePresident Chris Rosa, Youth of the Year Sydnie Byrnes, and Committee Chair Julie Crnich
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The Butte Exchange Club will honor its Youth of the Year and the ACE Award winner at a Noon Luncheon on March 22nd at the Bert Mooney Airport. Five students from Butte High and Butte Central entered their applications and essays for the Youth of the Year Scholarship to be awarded by the Club to one of the students. This year’s essay theme for the National Exchange Club Youth of the Year Program is:
“The COVID-19 Pandemic drastically changed every aspect of our lives, in every imaginable way. Reflecting on what you learned during this time about yourself, your community and the world, explain how your perspectives on success, empathy, prioritizing, social inequities, and leadership have been reshaped.”
Also at the luncheon on March 22nd the ACE Award winner will be announced. “ACE” stands for Achieving the Challenge oi Excellence and the students applying for this Scholarship describe how they have overcome a major obstacle in their lives to be able to complete their high school education. These students and their stories are truly remarkable.
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