Joel Robinson,
Director, Tippecanoe County Public Library, will speak about the Tippecanoe County Public Library planning to build a joint-use library in partnership with Ivy Tech State College. Rotarian BETTY DOVERSBERGER,
Chancellor, Ivy Tech State College, may also be involved with this presentation. This library, planned to be located on Ivy Tech's campus at State Road #38 and Creasy Lane, will be the first joint-use facility of its
kind in IN and will offer many advantages to the Greater Lafayette community. It will be the first branch library for the Tippecanoe County Public Library. Joel and BETTY are looking forward to telling you about them.
Joel is a former Lafayette Rotarian and President Elect of the Daybreak Rotary Club. Joel will be introduced by JO WADE, Program Coordinator for the month of December. CALENDAR on back of "Ripples" lists
December programs and other Rotary and Purdue functions and dates.
MEETING FUNCTIONS: Money Collectors - DAN HEMAN, 11:15 to 11:45, and WALT VALENTINE, 11:45 to 12:15; Greeter - GENE HILLS; Invocation - TOM SCHMIDT;
Music - BOB VERPLANK; and high school guests (McCutcheon) - DICK GRIPE.
CLUB CONCERNS: Prior to the invocation today, President BOB GRIFFITHS (President BOB) requested members to remember HARLAND WHITE (HARLAND is
back at Westminster Village from St. Elizabeth Medical Center) and spouse, CONNIE, in their thoughts and prayers.
PLEASE NOTE - SPECIAL TIME SEQUENCE for the TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8,1998 CLUB MEETING
LUNCH BUFFET will
be open at 11:15 p.m.; President BOB will start the Club's activities promptly at 12:00 noon: and the meeting will be dismissed at 12:45 p.m. Please mark your calendar to note that the Club meeting on this day will be
15 minutes earlier than usual.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
SALVATION ARMY BELL RINGER CAMPAIGN
SALVATION ARMY BELL RINGING - ANN PIECHOTA, Chair, and JERRY MC CARTHY, Vice Chair, announced the start of the Salvation Army
"Bell Ringer Campaign." ANN and JERRY will have a sign-up chart at Rotary until "Bell Ringing" on Saturday, December 19,1998. There are 12 locations with four time slots (10 a.m. - 12 p.m.; 12 - 2
p.rn.; 2 - 4 p.m.; and 4 - 6 p.m.); this translates into 96 Rotarians, spouses, children, friends, and/or acquaintances to fill these "ringing times." 1998 BELL RINGER CAMPAIGN ENVELOPES for individual
contributions ARE ENCLOSED with this week's "Ripples"; envelopes may be turned in to ANN, JERRY, DAVE LANDGREBE, Foundation Treasurer, or GRIFF. JERRY noted that after Rotary today that 62 of the 96 have been
filled -- CHECK YOUR SCHEDULE AND SIGN-UP for Salvation Army Bell Ringing on Saturday, December 19,1998.
SMALL GROUP DINNER - FIRST THURSDAY OF EACH MONTH: 6:30 p.m., Thursday, December 3, JM, at Bruno's. If you are
interested, please contact FRED ANDERSON, 743-0845. This is a great way to meet and know each other better in a cozy environment. SPOUSES and/or SIGNIFICANT OTHERS are welcome!
REMINDER FOR YEAR-END CONTRIBUTIONS,
and PORTFOLIO REALIGNMENT: The Food Finders Food Bank Inc. - $3,000.00 and CHAPS (Children and Horses As Partners) - $500.00, wish to thank the Lafayette Rotary Foundation (Foundation) for the gifts provided in 1998.
These gifts are part of the continuing commitment the Foundation has made to the Greater Lafayette. Your year-end and Christmas contributions to the Foundation efforts are impotent and valued.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
PROJECTS COMMITTEE (MARVIN BLADE, Chair, and LEW RUNNELS, Vice Chair) PROJECT: Volunteer help - SERVICE ABOVE SELF - is needed for the YWCA Women Domestic Violence Center's annual holiday celebration, BETTY SUDDARTH,
Coordinator. The following is the volunteer need schedule: (1) Thursday, December 10th - 9 - 11 a.m. - eight volunteers needed to decorate boxes (still need five more); (2) Friday, December 18th - 9 - 11 a.m. - six
volunteers needed to pack boxes (still need three more); and (3) Saturday and Sunday, December 19 and 20 - 1 - 4:00 p.m. - three volunteers are needed each day to deliver boxes (still need two for the 19th and three for
the 20th). If you can help please call BETTY and the sign-up sheet will be at GRIFF's table at Rotary the next two Tuesdays, December 1st. and 8th, 1998.
ANNUAL DINNER COMMITTEE MEETING, DAN TEDER, Vice President and
Committee Chair, Tuesday, December 1, 1998, immediately after the regular Club meeting, Boiler Board Room, University Inn and Conference Center. Members are listed on back of "Ripples."
LATE DUES - DALE MC
HENRY, Treasurer, reported Monday, November 9, 1998, at the Club Board meeting that several Rotarians have not paid their dues; those dues were due on October 31, 1998. Reminder notices are being prepared by DALE for
mailing to those Rotarians who have not paid their dues for this dues period.
RIPPLES FORMAT CORRECTIONS: The next six-month supply, January - June, of "Ripples" format will be ordered in early December. If
you have additions/corrections of committee member names, contact GRIFF. THIS IS THE LAST CALL!
DISTRICT GOVERNOR BILL HATFIELD's District newsletter (current and past copies), "Rotary Rainbow Review", are
available at GRIFF's table.
DECEMBER BIRTHDAY TABLE First Tuesday of the month -Tuesday, December 1, 1998.
DECEMBER BIRTHDAYS and DATES - DAVID LUHMAN, Chair, December Birthday Table.
MORGAN BURKE 17
DENNIS CARSON 17
GORDON CHAVERS 10
JEFF DARLING 5
MICHAEL HUNT 9
ELSA JANLE 23
DAVID LUHMAN 22
CHRIS MULLEN 20
ERIC MURPHY 28
EARL PARK 31
BILL PAYNE 22
LUIS PROENZA 22
CARL REW 20
DICK SMITH 27
VIRGIL ST. JOHN 18
BETTY SUDDARTH
TIP TYLER 19
JEFF WEAVER 8
LEO WEITZMAN 15
DAVID ZIMMERMAN 14
MAKE UPS: HAROLD MICHAEL, Otterbein
(HAROLD was the speaker at Otterbein).
VISITING ROTARIAN: Nick and Jan Leaverton (Nick is a member of Santa Maria Breakfast, CA and Jan is a member of Santa Maria Noon - Jan is President of the Santa Maria Noon
Rotary Club); Suellen Reed (today's speaker), Rushville; and Chuck Session, Kokomo Noon.
VISITORS: Debra Rozales with Visiting Rotarian/Speaker Suellen Reed (Debra is Scheduler, Indiana Department of Education);
Carol and Paul Harriman (Sarasota, FL), mother and father of JUDITH HAMMAN; Chris Cue (Myrtle Beach, SC), son of ELAINE CUE; Jim and Margaret Moomaw (Yorba Linda, CA), cousins of JIM FENN; Janet Broyles (Greater
Lafayette), guest of DAN HEMAN (Janet is President, Automated Payroll Services); Captain Kjell Steinsland, Salvation Army, introduced by JERRY MC CARTHY; and Elizabeth Sondgerath (Greater Lafayette), granddaughter (and
Purdue graduate) of LAWRENCE TEDER.
SPECIAL GUEST: Camille Bencteux, International Youth Exchange Student from FRANCE, hosted/introduced by SUSAN SMITH; Camille is attending Central Catholic High School.
ROTARY
JEOPARDY - hosted by BILL LOVELL and GLENN BOWERS: Questions/answers for November 27th, were (1) This word comes last when reciting the Four-Way Test (What is concerned); (2) Rounded off to the nearest 50, the number of
countries throughout the world within which Rotary is active (What is 150 - actual number is 159); (3) An annual publication which is essential for world travelers who wish to attend "make ups" at other clubs
(What is the Official Directory of Rotary International); and (4) Rounded off to the nearest thousand, the number of active Rotarians who reside in Rotary International District 6560 (What is 3,000 - actual number is
3,200). Next Rotary Jeopardy will be Tuesday, December 15, 1998.
ROTARY FAMILY NEWS:
- BYRON ANDERSON has left for FL.
- ROTARIANS/SPOUSES IN THE NEWS: DICK BARTHOLOMEW, recently edited course materials and
taught a continuing professional education course and spoke to the Minnesota State Tax Institute on estate planning and succession planning; JIM BODENMILLER ("JC" picture), Chair, United Way, announced that
goal, $4 million, was beaten - 101% ($4,042,022.); DAVE BOUGH ("JC" picture) and BETTY NELSON, quoted in article regarding Rotary's involvement with Village Banking Project in the Philippines; DOUG BRANIGIN
("Leader" and "JC" pictures) honored with the Sagamore of the Wabash award, presented by Rep. Sheila Klinker on behalf of Gov. Frank O'Bannon, for supportive effort of the St. Elizabeth Medical
Center and Lafayette Home Hospital partnership; BARB DOSTER received an Outstanding Adviser Award from the National Academic Advising Association in recognition of her continued demonstration of qualities associated
with the outstanding advising of students; SONYA MARGERUM ("Leader" picture) featured in an article entitled "Sonya Margerum: Consensus- seeker, Tireless Campaigner, and (Maybe) Six-term Mayor"; and
TOM SCHMIDT ("JC" picture) quoted in an article recognizing the Wesleyan Church in Layette's 75th anniversary.
LAWRENCE TEDER introduced Dr. Suellen Reed, a Rushville Rotarian and Superintendent, Indiana
Department of Education, who made a most interesting presentation. Dr. Reed noted that the most frequently asked question of her is, "How are we doing?" And she proceeded to answer that question for
Rotarians/Kiwanians with some "good news" (IN one of top nine, nationally, in math and science; high school graduation rate is 88% - highest ever; attendance rate is 96% - highest ever; 45% of students taking
a foreign language which is a "gatekeeper" course to indicate who will be going on to college; 12 - 16% graduating from academic honors program with 47 credits; and IN is 3rd, nationally, fastest improving
State) and 'bad news" (need to work harder in math; not reaching the 12% who are not graduating - need to realize that the high school diploma is !he bare minimum needed; and need to work toward better connection
between high school and after high school). Dr. Reed closed by indicating that (1) What we do for best (students), we do for the rest (students); (2) Teachers need to bring out the very best of all students; and (3)
Schools cannot do the job by themselves, need help from everyone, including everyone in attendance at the meeting today - we must do everything possible to develop the potential of these students.
INVOCATION by DAN
HEMAN, singing led by SUSAN SMITH, and Rotary piano by HARLEY FREY.
