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Volume 83, Number 52 – June 29, 1999 Tuesday, July 6, 1999 is the day that President ROBERT L. GRIFFITHS (President BOB) and President Elect DENNIS E. COURTANEY (President Elect GENE) have decided will be the administration/leadership change of the Lafayette Rotary Club. Retiring President BOB will review the highlights of his past year and incoming President GENE will outline his program for the 1999-2000 Rotary year. It is hoped that members, and especially Club Past Presidents (tables will be reserved for Past Presidents), will make a special effort to attend to extend their thanks to President BOB for his efforts during the past Rotary Year and to show your support to President GENE in the upcoming 1999-2000 Rotary year. CALENDAR on back of “Ripples” lists July programs; JIM CARNEY, is July Program Coordinator, and other Rotary and community dates and functions. NOTE: Committee assignments for the 1999-2000 Rotary year will be on the back of the July 6th issue of “Ripples”. MEETING FUNCTIONS: Money Collectors - JIM BODENMILLER, 11:00 to 11:40, and JIM HANKS, 11:40 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.; Greeter - DON GENTRY; Invocation - KEN EWING; and Music - KATHY MEEKS. CLUB CONCERNS and FAMILY NEWS: Prior to the invocation today, President BOB noted that GRIFF had talked with BOB JEFFARES Monday evening, June 28th (BOB had quadruple by-pass surgery on Monday, June 21st at St. Vincent’s in Indianapolis and came home on Thursday) and he is getting along very well. President BOB requested members to remember BOB; LINDA EWING, spouse of KEN; BOB HIATT; BEV STONE; and MARJORIE WALKER, spouse of DICK, in their thoughts and prayers. SUSAN HYCHKA has a new position at Purdue, effective Thursday, July 1, 1999; Employment Coordinator - Student Advisor, Center for Career Opportunities, Stewart Center, 494-3981, e-mail < susan@cco.purdue.edu >. OSCAR and BEVERLY HOPKINS are grandparents for the fourth time. James Hopkins Cover was born to Jan and Karen (Hopkins) Cover on Saturday, June 26, 1999 in Lafayette. Thanks to OSCAR and BEVERLY for a significant contribution to the Foundations in honor of James Hopkins Cover. EARL PARK has new address, 224 Sheffield Road, West Lafayette 47906-8601 - same telephone number. Phil Emerson has resigned from Rotary. ANNOUNCEMENTS: PLANNING COMMITTEE SUBCOMMITTEE (Subcommittee) MEETING: JIM KLUSMAN, Chair, has called a Subcommittee meeting for 7:30 a.m., Thursday, July 8, 1999, at Elmhurst Building, home of the Community Foundation and United Way. Subcommittee members are: MARVIN BLADE; GENE COURTANEY; BOB GRIFFITHS; BETTY NELSON; and TRUDY TROCHTA. NEW MEMBER: JAMES F. SMITH (JIM) with classification Past Service, MINERAL OIL
ATTENTION PAST PRESIDENTS: Your photograph, taken around the time you served as the Lafayette Rotary Club President, is needed to be included in the “Video History of the Lafayette Rotary Club” which is being produced by the Membership Education and Information Committee (Committee). All photos will be returned after being scanned. The Committee currently has photos of all Past Presidents through 1937, and just received PARKIE PARKHURST’s, but the Committee needs yours. Also, if you know of an individual who may possess a photo of a deceased Past President who served after 1937, please alert CHRIS FUNK or BOB GARRISON. ETHIOPIA LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT (Project): DAVID BOUGH, Chair, World Community Service Committee (Committee) received an e-mail notice that the Project has been approved by Rotary International (RI) - Matching Grant #11234. This means that current contributions to the Project may be applied toward the Project goal of $5,000.00 as well as toward a Paul Harris Fellow award. The designation of individual contributions to RI for the past year, July 1, 1998 through June 30, 1999 to the Project must be authorized to RI by tomorrow, June 30th; GRIFF will be FAXing the names of these Rotarians to RI tomorrow. PLEASE KEEP IN MIND the “Rotary Plaza Project” (Project) which is to be the main entrance to the Museums at Prophetstown (Museums). The cost of site work/landscaping for the Project is $50,000.00. The Lafayette Rotary Foundation (Foundation) has pledged a minimum of $25,000.00, or half of the necessary funding, and the Club Board of Directors has authorized the solicitation of Club members and their families to hopefully match the Foundation’s gift. Checks should be made payable to the Lafayette Rotary Foundation, with notation in the lower left-hand corner, and mailed to David Landgrebe, Foundation Treasurer, 1633 Western Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47906. NEXT SMALL GROUP DINNER is Wednesday, July 7, 1999 at SANDY PEARLMAN’s; contact JANE TURNER if interested in attending. JEFF WEAVER, Sales and Marketing Representative, Greenbush Industries, noted that Employ Abilities, a wholly owned subsidiary of Wabash Center, is seeking an individual to fill a part-time position: Job Title - Program Liaison; Department - Quality Assurance; Compensation: $20 to $25 hourly; Schedule - 2 to 3 days a week; Summary - coordinates activities to evaluate and resolve engineering related production problems encountered in assigned areas of a customer’s manufacturing facility; and Experience - Quality control, supervision, customer service, good communication skills. If you know of someone who might be interested, contact Wendy Starr at Employ Abilities, Inc., 639 Earl Avenue, Lafayette, IN 47905. JULY BIRTHDAY TABLE - First Tuesday in the month - July 6, 1999. JULY BIRTHDAYS and DATES - MILLARD PLUMLEE, July Birthday Table Chair.
MAKE UPS: BRUCE HARDING, Clarksville (three times) and New Albany (two times); FRITZ COHEN, Daybreak installation of President Joel Robinson; BILL FULLER and JAN GRIFFIN KOEHLER, Daybreak; LE ROY SILVA, Michigan City; and FAE SPURLOCK, Franklin, NC. VISITING ROTARIAN: Jay Smith, Daybreak. VISITORS: Leo Farrell (Greater Lafayette), guest of JIM FUNK (Leo is President, The Copy Print Shop); Todd Lyons (Greater Lafayette), guest of STEVE MOTT (Todd is the new Youth Sports Director, YMCA); and Sherm Kessler (New Ross), guest of BETTY NELSON (Sherm is a former Trustee of Purdue University and currently a Board member, Ivy Tech State College). FIVE ROTARIANS are now getting “Ripples” from the web site < www.lafayetterotary.org > which saves postage; these five will save the Club ~$40.00 over a 52-week period. Are there others, if so let GRIFF know. AN ITEM from “Link”, Rotary Club of Indianapolis weekly newsletter, might be of interest to members. It has been discovered that the Vincent Van Gogh family had many relatives; among them were: His obnoxious brother - Please Gogh; His dizzy aunt - Verti Gogh; The brother who ate prunes - Gotta Gogh; The brother who worked at a convenience store: Stopn Gogh; The grandfather from Yugoslavia - U Gogh; The brother who bleached his clothes white - Hue Gogh; The cousin from Illinois - Chica Gogh; His magician uncle - Wherediddy Gogh; His Mexican cousin - Amee Gogh; His Mexican cousin’s American half brother - Grin Gogh; The nephew who drove a stage coach - Welisfar Gogh; The ballroom dancing aunt - Tan Gogh; The bird lover uncle - Flaming Gogh; His nephew psychoanalyst - E Gogh; The fruit loving cousin - Man Gogh; An aunt who taught positive thinking - Wayto Gogh; The little bouncy nephew - Poe Gogh; and His niece who travels the country in a van - Winne Bay Gogh. GORDON KINGMA introduced CHRIS FUNK who made an outstanding presentation regarding the Lafayette Rotary Club web site and the information available on it - < www.lafayetterotary.org >. CHRIS, with the utilization of his lap top computer and a LCD (liquid crystal display) projector, was able to show actual web site pictures/examples of the many sources of available Rotary information from Lafayette Club, Rotary International, and other Rotary Clubs. Cards were distributed at the tables for members to complete, if desired, which would provide various e-mail and web site information. Completed cards were collected and at the end of the meeting three “Rotary - www.lafayetterotary.org” T-shirts were awarded. Winners were STEVE PENNELL; JERRY COLE; and VIC LECHTENBERG . COLLECTORS: JERRY MC CARTHY and MILLARD PLUMLEE; Invocation by GENE COURTANEY; Singing led by MARY HALEY; and Rotary piano by REX KEPLER.
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INDUSTRY-Fuel Oil-Distributing, was introduced by GRIFF. JIM and his spouse, MARGARET, parents of Jay, a former Lafayette Rotarian and now a member of Daybreak, recently returned to the Greater Lafayette area, and reside at 1821 Arcadia Drive, Lafayette 47905-4004 - telephone 447-1660. JIM was a Lafayette Rotarian for 33 years, retired from the Highlite (not sure about the spelling) Oil Co., on December 19, 1985 transferred to the Aiken, SC Rotary Club, and has been a very active Rotarian there since that time. The Club is certainly fortunate to have JIM return as a member.