New Martinsville Rotary Club President Dan Mason and students Emersyn Glasscock and Matthew Scharf.

The New Martinsville Rotary met on Wednesday, April 2, at Quinet’s Court Restaurant in Downtown New Martinsville to discuss business, and welcome the April students of the month.

President Dan Mason opened the meeting introducing the students before turning the meeting over to Rotarian Chuck Clegg who spoke about attending a Rotary training class for (PET) President Elect Training held in Charleston at the Kawaha County Library.

Clegg said it was an interesting meeting with around 75 people in attendance, about half of those in attendance being newly elected Presidents.

The daylong session gave Clegg an understanding of the mission of Rotary, both International and here in our country. He learned that their primary Mission is to help eradicate Polio worldwide.The Rotary organization has 1.4 million members in over two hundred countries. Here in America, there are 36,000 clubs. West Virginia has 53 Rotary Clubs and they are made up of 18,000 members.

Clegg explained that his time in Charleston gave him an opportunity to meet several area members and make contacts who have invited him to speak at their organizations.

He said the class was to familiarize them with their duties when they take office in July. Also he mentioned learning some things about Rotary that he didn’t know prior to the meeting. Clegg said his goal when he takes over as President will be to increase membership, ensure guest speakers for the weekly meetings and provide projects for the local membership. He also mentioned that on April 16, the club’s meeting will be held at the Wetzel County Tech Center with a DNR officer as the speaker. Also the meal for the meeting will be served by the center.

Attending Wednesday’s meeting were students of the month Emersyn Glasscock and Matthew Scharf.

Glasscock, from Folsom, WVa., is the daughter of Tim Glasscock and Melody Reed, of Folsom. She is a senior at Magnolia high school and is a member of the FFA, NTHS, and FFA Sentinel. Emerslyn participates in Track and Field and Archery. Her community activities include Church and Folsom Fire Dept. Her hobbies are cooking, playing with her animals, fishing, and hunting.

She plans to attend the University of Kentucky and major in Veterinary Medicine.

Scharf is the son of Mike and Susan Scharf of New Martinsville. Matthew is a 4.0 student at Magnolia high school. His clubs include the guitar club, percussion ensemble, and brass ensemble. He is a member of the Magnolia high school marching band, concert band, Jazz band, and All-County band.

His special recognitions include Music department Steam Team (2021-2022 year and 2023-2024 year.) He is in the top 15% of his class freshman and junior years, and was nominated character student of the month in November 2023.

His community activities include the Church Praise Band (Drums). Church Tech Team, and Volunteer at Lighthouse CAC. His hobbies are music, self taught on guitar and drums, video games, cars and car shows, music creation and production. As of now he plans to join the workforce upon graduation.