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i i Hie Orlando Sentinel MOLE Friday, October 9, 1987 Rottapy adds woman to postler Executive senses no discrimination in Cassel berry organization By Ines Davis Parrish OF THE SENTINEL STAFF Don Boyett 1 EREMT y(Kti I VEDtESDM 1:311 A.M. Vj I 1 CASSELBERRY When Maureen Moore was asked to join the Rotary Club, formerly a men-only civic organization, she said she thought the invitation was a joke. A busy woman who runs an alarm business, Advanced Communications, and has three teen-age daughters, Moore said she wasn't sure she wanted to join a service club that has, as part of its activities, a communal sing at each meeting. But, she said, "I like the club and what it stands for, and I thought I could handle the singing." Moore, 46, is the first woman inducted into the Casselberry Rotary Club. The action comes after a U.S.

Supreme Court ruling in May that prohibits clubs like Rotary and Kiwanis from excluding women. For the Rotary, it ended an 82-year tradition. Club president Ronald Ange said his members long have favored including women, so Moore's induction was no big deal. "The question of gender never came up. "She's a leader, a go-getter and that's the type of person we want," Ange said.

One requirement for membership is that there be a vacancy among the professions represented by the club membership and that invited people are executives in the business they are in. A person cannot petition a Rotary Club to become a member, but must be invited. Jack Henderson, district governor for 57 clubs in Central Florida, said he does not know how many women have BARBARA VITALIANOSENTINEL Moore is 'the type of person we said Rotary president. SEMINOLE COUNTY EDITOR City mourns death of community leader Of the "pitch-in" generation: Russell Grant recalls how Jimmy Reiter would pull his spray rigs out of groves he would be servicing and use them to fight fires, even after Longwood bought a fire truck. "He was a man with a strong community spirit." Olin Elgin remembers, as a boy, looking up to Jimmy as a hero who would let him and his buddies ride horses and play cowboy up on "Mud Prairie," a place now covered with subdivisions.

"He was always sharing." For Newt Good all, the memory was the private and personal help Jimmy would give people in the community, "help few people ever knew about." James Reiter (pronounced writer) died Wednesday at 74, and, as befits the death of a longtime community leader, Longwood's longtimers mixed fond memories with grief. The city had lost another pillar, another of those "pitch-in" people who mold towns into communities. The father of Jimmy and and his brother, Roy, was a Pennsylvania farmer when doctors suggested a climate warmer than Pittsburg's for Jimmy's respiratory ailment. The family all but an older brother, who, in his 90s, still lives on the original home place moved to Longwood in 1917. Jimmy was in the sixth grade when he quit school.

Soon after, he and Roy, two years younger, started a grove service with a pair of mules their father bought. Their's was a life of hard work, but always underscored by community service and caring for others. Though known as "Mr. Fire Department," Jimmy's civic interest was not limited. He was a city commissioner in the early '60s.

As a pitch-in veteran he hauled donated materials to lift what would be the future Rangeline Road out of the mud. It was his and Roy's equipment that leveled ground for Peppermint Park, the city's first park. In the history of cities, there is a list of pitch-in people whose communities were made better for their having been there. One by one, those names are being crossed off the lists in Central Florida cities, as was Jimmy Rieter's on Wednesday. May they ever be remem-' be in return." The informational meetings help her understand what is going on in the community and fulfill her goal of continually learning, Moore said.

She said she does not sense any resentment from the men in the club and called the group "real down to earth." The 55-member club donated $22,000 to charitable agencies last year, and recently gave $5,000 to the Sharing Concern for Seminole County Shelter Children for its group home that will house 12 abused, abandoned or neglected children. joined the clubs. He also did not know if Casselberry's club was the first in Seminole County to accept a woman. Whether she is a first for the county is not important for Moore, who said she did not want to be just a token woman member. "I don't have time to join a club to be a token." Moore said she doesn't plan to take a leadership role in the club because of her schedule, which includes classes at Rollins College for a bachelor's degree and frequent travel.

Still, she said, "I feel I can do something for the club and get something Brothers teaming up to tackle Lyman By Herky Cush OF THE SENTINEL STAFF The Birles will be trying to lead Lake Mary to a fourth consecutive victory tonight when the Rams travel to Lyman for a Class AAAAA, District 4 high school football game. Lake Mary is 3-1 on the year with a 2-0 district record. Lyman is 2-1 and 0-1. Though he figured he would be the varsity's place kicker this season, Alex Birle is pleasantly surprised that his hard work has brought a starting right tackle spot. "I guess my hustle paid off," Alex said.

"I've worked hard at getting the It's no strange coincidence that brothers Eric and Alex Birle line up alongside one another on the Lake Mary offensive line. Eric, a 6-foot-2, 205-pound senior guard, and Alex, a 6-2, 210-pound junior tackle who also does the place kicking, have been key elements in the Rams' success over the past three weeks. "I always look for certain combinations," Lake Mary Coach Harry Nelson said. "Sometimes it's two seniors, two friends, two brothers or even two wres- Game of the week LAKE MARY VS. LYMAN job.

Eric says he's known all along that his younger brother was good enough. Please see GAME, 23 tiers. It's good to have people who can work together. The Birles certainly work well together.".