The 2023 Interact member of the year, Delaney Rogers, presents the 2024 Interact member of the year award to Anna Tullis
New officers for the 2024-2025 school year: Ivy Tullis, secretary; Eli Rogers, Vice President; Anna Tullis, president; and Delaney Rogers, past president. Not pictured: Taylor Hanna-Miles, graphic design and social media coordinator; and Realta Leach, treasurer.
On Thursday, May 23rd, the Arnold Rotary Club and the Central Nebraska Interact Club held a joint meeting.
President Buzz Lohmiller called the meeting to order, did some weekly Rotary business, discussed RYLA transportation, and the mental health gifts for teachers, and then handed off the meeting to President Delaney Rogers
Last year’s Interactor of the year due to her statewide Halsey Strong project, Delaney Rogers, revealed the 2023-25 Interact member of the year, Anna Tullis.
With this being the last official meeting of the year, the seniors were celebrated. The Interact club graduated 6 seniors with only two able to be present, Delaney Rogers (now Past President ) and Tahnna Nokes (former treasurer).
Graduating seniors Delaney Rogers and Tahnna Nokes, former treasurer, were thanked for their service to the Arnold Community and encouraged to join Rotaract clubs in their new college communities.
Over the last year Tullis researched, designed, installed, and stocked a Bring One, Take One library in Koubek Gardens for the entire community. She updated the clubs about the missing books and her new project in which she visited the nursing home with several friends and entertained the residents with crafts and games.
Tullis continued the meeting by installing the new leadership of Interact: Eli Roger as Vice President, Ivy Tullis as Secretary; and Danah Baldwin as Treasurer.
Eli Rogers updated the clubs on his Dolly Parton Imagination Library extension to now include 4 counties. The kids also updated Rotary on upcoming projects including RYLA, a Kayak gathering, and the bike-a-thon in the fall.