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Volume 83, Number 23 � December 1, 1998
PLEASE NOTE - SPECIAL TIME SEQUENCE for TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8,1998.LUNCH BUFFET will 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. Gregory J. Donat, Judge, Tippecanoe County Court No. 1, will speak about the development of a Drug Court. With the support of your Lafayette Rotary Club/Foundation ($1,500.00 grant), Tippecanoe County Court No. 1
is in the process of developing a Drug Court which provides a rigorous treatment and supervision alternative to incarceration. Tippecanoe County has received a federal planning grant and will implement a Community
Corrections based therapeutic Drug Court in the next 18 months. Judge Donat will be introduced by JO WADE, Program Coordinator for the month of December. MEETING FUNCTIONS: Money Collectors - DAN HEMAN, 11:15 to
11:45, and WALT VALENTINE, 11:45 to 12:15; Greeter - NELLIE LECHMAN; Invocation - JIM HOBBS; Music - BOB VERPLANK; and high school guests (West Lafayette) MARGARET HALL. RESERVED NEW MEMBER TABLE next week, December
8th - new members plan to sit together. CLUB CONCERNS: Prior to the invocation today, President BOB GRIFFITHS (President BOB) requested members to remember JERRY COLE who entered Mayo Clinic today; LINDA EWING, spouse
of KEN; LINDA GRIFFITH, spouse of GREG and daughter-in-law of GRIFF; CONNIE GRIFFITHS, spouse of President BOB, and REX KEPLER who had ear surgery; in their thoughts and prayers. President BOB also noted that the son of
Joe Collings, President, Rockville Rotary Club, and grandson of 1994-95 Past District Governor Dick Collings was killed in Paris, FRANCE (a Wabash student studying in Paris) on Thanksgiving Day. Should you wish to send
a card or some other remembrance to Joe Collings (PO Box 169, Rockville, IN 47872) and/or Dick and Freda Collings (FIR #4, Box 513, Rockville, IN 47872), their addresses are listed. Good news, HARLAND WHITE back to
Rotary today. ANNOUNCEMENTS: SALVATION ARMY BELL RINGING - ANN PIECHOTA, Chair, and JERRY MC CARTHY, Vice Chair, 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.m.; 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 AVAILABLE, envelopes may be turned in to ANN, JERRY, DAVE LANDGREBE, Foundation Treasurer, or GRIFF. CHECK YOUR SCHEDULE AND SIGN-UP!
REMINDER-FOR YEAR-END CONTRIBUTIONS, TAX PLANNING, and PORTFOLIO REALIGNMENT: DALE I KNOW
Remember
the Greater Lafayette community in your Christmas gift thoughts. A special contribution to the Lafayette Rotary Foundation provides an opportunity for a 'gift that keeps growing'.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 four more); (2) Friday, December 18th
- 9 - I I a.m. - six volunteers needed to pack boxes (still need one 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 one for each the 19
th and the 20th). If you an help, please call BETTY or the sign-up sheet will be at GRIFF's table at Rotary next Tuesday. LATEE DUES - DALE MC HENRY, Treasurer, reported Monday, November 9, 1998,
at the Club Board meeting at several Rotarians have not paid their dues; those dues were due on October 31, 1998. Reminder notices were mailed Monday, November 30, 1998 to those Rotarians who have not paid. FAMILY
DAY. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1998: JEFF DARLING, Chair of this event, needs number attending information for a guarantee to the University Inn and Conference Center. Sign-up sheets will be at GRIFF's table for you to
designate, WE WILL USE REGULAR CHECK-IN SHEETS - WE WILL ASSUME THAT THE NUMBER INCLUDES YOU! OFFICIAL APPROVAL of the Nominating Committee's Report, DAVID LUHMAN, Chair, for 1999-2000 Club Officers, Directors
(three-year terms), and Foundation Director (five-year term): Town Directors - KEN EWING and BOB GARRISON; Gown Directors - BARB OSTER and STAN MITHOEFER; President - GENE COURTANEY; President Elect - DAN TEDER; Vice
President - OSCAR HOPKINS; Secretary - GRIFF; Treasurer - DALE MC HENRY; Assistant Treasurer - KEITH SMITH; and Foundation Director - JIM HOBBS, NOVEMBER 100% CLUB NEXT TWO ISSUES OF "RIPPLES". MAKE UPS: BILL
FULLER, Staunton, VA; VICKI MAYES, Bloomington; and FAE SPURLOCK, Franklin, NC. VISITING ROTARIANS: Alberta Barker and Harry Mohler, Daybreak. VISITORS: Joe Bumbleburg and Elaine Pearlman (Greater Lafayette), guests
of BETTY DOVERSBERGER (Joe is a local attorney and State Trustee, Ivy Tech, and Elaine is Regional Trustee, Ivy Tech); Julia Kerby (Greater Lafayette) guest of CURTIS MULLEN (Julia is Professional Housing Consultant,
Thomas Homes); and Pat Cunningham (Greater Lafayette), guest of BILL PAPE (Pat is a Land Surveyor and Owner, Vestor & Associates). MC CUTCHEON HIGH SCHOOL GUESTS: Megan Morehouse and Brian Eaton, guests of the
Club and hosted/introduced by DICK GRIPE. DICK presented certificates of recognition and President BOB presented a "Rotary Travel Mug" (4-Way Test on it) to Megan and Brian. FREE MEALS for November: BILL CONNORS,
GORDON COPPOC, JOHN HAWKINS, STAN MITHOEFER, VIRGIL ST. JOHN, and LAWRENCE TEDER. ROTARIANS/SPOUSES IN THE NEWS: CORKY MITCHELL ("Leader" picture) featured in neat article entitled "Corinne "Corky" Mitchell: Positive,
Perky, and Crazy for Purdue." JO WADE introduced Joel Robinson, who with the aid of slides, described and showed architectural drawings of the proposed Tippecanoe County Public Library (TCPL)/Ivy Tech State College
(Ivy Tech) Joint Library Project (Project). Joel then introduced Jerry Withered, local attorney and Chair, Library Facilities Committee, who discussed the financial part of the proposed Project, cost to be shared
equally between TCPL and Ivy Tech, and listed a possible time table for the construction of the under $4 million Project. Jerry noted ways that Rotarians can help: (1) If you like - talk to friends and share; and (2) If
a remonstrance - help carry petitions. INVOCATION by TOM SCHMIDT, singing led by BOB VERPLANK, and Rotary piano by HARLEY FREY. |
