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Volume 84, Number 26 – January 4, 2000 Dr. Herbert London, President, Hudson Institute,
NOTE: Next Tuesday’s agenda is quite full; therefore, President GENE COURTANEY (President GENE), in order to allow a full amount of time to Dr. London, will covene the meeting at 12:00 noon rather than 12:10 p.m., the usual time. Also, should you want to bring a guest to hear Dr. London, please contact GRIFF by 12:00 noon on Monday, January 10th. MEETING FUNCTIONS: Money Collectors - LYNNE ZACHMANOGLOU, 11:15 to 11:45, and CHRISTY SMITH, 11:45 to 12:15; Greeter - WALT VALENTINE; Invocation - RAY PEETERS; Music - BOB VERPLANK; and High School Guests (Harrison) hosted by BARB DOSTER. CLUB CONCERNS: Prior to the invocation today, President GENE requested members to keep the following in their thoughts and prayers: KEN and LINDA EWING (KEN was back to Rotary today with some aid of a walker - it was good to see him and LINDA continues to deal with cancer); YB HALL who is still in the Westminster Village Health Center working hard on physical therapy - doing okay; BOB HIATT; MARV PHILLIPS who is in a Boston, MA hospital with pneumonia - MARV and BARBARA’s daughter is a physician at this hospital; JOE SICER whose daughter, Mary Moore, to say that JOE suffered a stroke (affected his left side and speech somewhat slurred) on Christmas, was taken to the Lake Placid, FL hospital, did not know how long he might be in the hospital, and suggested that cards and notes should be sent to his home address (FL home address in Directory is not correct): JOE SICER, 449 Lake June Road, Lake Placid, FL 33852-5667; and BEV STONE, who is back at George Davis Manor and would really appreciate cards and notes. DEEPEST SYMPATHY to the family of EV WRIGHT who died at 11:25 a.m., Saturday, January 1, 2000 at Westminster Village. EV had been a member since 1946-47; was a Past President - 1958-59; did not attend Rotary after November 4, 1997 due to poor health and not being able to hear; at the end of October 1997 had 519 months of 100% attendance, i.e., 43 years and 3 months; and was named an honorary member by the Club Board on December 8, 1997. Over the years EV worked willingly on Rotary committees each year - he was the epitome of Rotary’s motto - “Service Above Self.” DAVID LUHMAN will offer an eulogy to EV at the January 11th Club meeting. ANNOUNCEMENTS: COMMITTEE MEETINGS - (See back of “Ripples” for listing of Committee members):
-VOCATIONAL SERVICE AWARD NOMINATION FORMS are available on tables at Club meetings or at GRIFF’s table. Deadline for submission is Monday, January 24th. SALVATION ARMY BELL RINGER CAMPAIGN: President GENE announced today that Rotary’s contributions, kettle bell ringing and individual contributions, amounted, thus far, to an all-time high - $20,781.00. A more detailed accounting will be provided by DAVID LANDGREBE in a future “Ripples.” ROTARIAN-OF-THE-YEAR AWARD NOMINATION FORMS are available on tables at Club meetings or at GRIFF’s table. The Rotarian-of-the-Year Selection Committee will receive nominations until February 1, 2000 and Rotarian selected will be introduced at the Annual Dinner, Tuesday, March 21, 2000. JANUARY BIRTHDAY TABLE: JOHN SORENSEN, Chair, January Birthday Table, indicated that Rotarians with birthdays in January contributed approximately $530.00 to the International and Lafayette Foundations. WEB SITE HITS: CHRIS FUNK indicated that a measure of usage is “page requests”, i.e., one user looking at the “Ripples” page would count as 1 page request. Keeping track of such page requests was started on July 21st and the following are page requests per month: July, from the 21st - 464; August - 699; September -769; October - 686; November - 861; and December, through the 6th - 172. CHRIS indicated another statistic shows origination of people who visit the Club’s site, obviously, the vast majority came from the US; however, there have been people from the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, France, Germany, Guatemala, Japan, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Philippines, Russian Federation, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and Ukraine. MAKE UPS: JOHN CARPENTER and TOM SMITH, Naples Golden Gate, FL; SCOTT DOWNEY, Fowler; BETTY NELSON, Indianapolis Northeast; TOM SCHMIDT, Hart, MI; and JOE SICER, Lake Placid, FL. VISITING ROTARIANS: Rob Miller, Muncie. VISITORS: HARRIET COPPOC, spouse of GORDON; Joshua Kelly, son of SHAWN; Joe Krause (Greater Lafayette), guest of BILL HATFIELD (Joe is a retired West Lafayette High School teacher and City Council member); Carl Braunlich (Greater Lafayette), guest of ED HEMMER (Carl is an Associate Professor of Restaurant, Hotel, Institutional, and Tourism Management); Pat Annis (Greater Lafayette), guest of ELSA JANLE and LINA REEVES-KERNER (Pat is a nurse at George Davis Manor). SPECIAL GUEST: Bok-Ki Lee, Ambassadorial Scholar in English Literature (Ph.D.), from REPUBLIC OF KOREA, guest of the Club and hosted/introduced by his Host Counselor, AL CHISCON. BETTY NELSON introduced CHRIS JOHANNSEN who made a most interesting presentation
COLLECTORS: LYNNE ZACHMANOGLOU and CHRISTY SMITH; Greeting by DENNIS DUNN; Invocation by GORDON KINGMA; Singing led by STEVE MOTT; Rotary piano by REX KEPLER; and Free Meal Drawing - ANDY BAIN and DENNIS CARSON.
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Indianapolis, will speak on “Reading the Tea Leaves: A Look at the Future.” Dr. London will be introduced by
BETTY NELSON, Program Coordinator for the month of January; programs in January will focus on the future.
about “Precision Farming”, also referred to as Site Specific, Variable Rate Technology, and Prescription Farming. CHRIS defined Precision Farming as using the best available technologies to tailor soil and crop management to fit the specific conditions found within an agricultural field or tract; noted operation affects as being tillage, seed selection and placement, crop management, harvesting, and planning; referred to technologies involved as Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS), Data Information Transmission, and Communication; cited promises of Precision Farming as being increased net return per acre, improved efficiency of agriculture, reduced risk to water quality, and increased management skills; and emphasized the future as being more satellites (measuring more data), higher spatial resolution, increased spectral resolutions, more coverage, GIS application using RS, and more RS, GIS, and GPS consultants.