Ripples - December 03, 2002

Volume 88, Number 22 - December 3, 2002

There will be NO regular meetings on December 24th and 31st due to the holidays.

NEXT WEEK'S PROGRAM

Mark Bleyer of Cook Biotech Inc.

NEXT WEEK'S MEETING FUNCTIONS: Money Collectors - JIM CARNEY - 11:15 to 11:45a.m. and CLIFF WOJTALEWICZ - 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.; Greeter - JAN GRIFFIN KOHLER; Invocation - BILL BAUMGART

CLUB CONCERNS

PRESIDENT DAVE BOUGH, requested members/spouses to keep the following in their thoughts and prayers: JOHN and EUDORA MC KEE; ED PAGE; FAE SPURLOCK; BEV STONE; Marjorie spouse of DICK WALKER, SANDY GRABOWSKI who had surgery, JERRY MC CARTHY who had surgery, and JOHN DE CAMP. It was good to see RICK SCWARZ and KEN DECKER back at Rotary today.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The sign-up sheet for Bell Ringing for Salvation Army on Saturday, December 14th is available. Sign up for one of the remaining 22 two-hour shifts.

Small Group Dinner Holiday Open House in JANE TURNER'S home on Thursday, December 12th at 6:00. Please make reservations with MARTHA CHISCON. Cost is $8.00 per person.

VICKI MAYES has called a Vocational Service Committee meeting after the regular meeting on December 17th.

BILL HATFIELD needs hosts for GSE team members from South Africa who will be visiting us in April. Please contact him if you can help.

Rotarian John Allen - team leader. Retired CEO of the Port Elizabeth Community Chest. (Jim Klusman has indicated an interest in hosting him but will check with his wife before committing).

Tim Marshall - Age 27, single, B. Com. Majors Industrial & Organizational Psychology and Business Management. Youth Pastor, Fraternal Methodist Church. Studying for Diploma in Theology.

Annali Erasmus - Age 34, single, BA Law, worked way thru college on Tennis scholarship, Has her own legal practice in Uitenhage (near Port Elizabeth, SA)

Joubert Tetief - Age 32, married one 2 year old son, BA, BED, HDE, high school teacher of history and geography.

Liesal Rudlan - Age 29, divorced, 5 year old daughter, BA Psychology and Sociology, Human Resources, Planning Consultant for Volkswagen of SA .

Responsibilities for hosting team members:

Pick up team member on arrival and receive him/her as a guest in your home for 4 days.
Include your guest in family activities.
Provide breakfast and dinner. (Lunch will be provided by the people with whom the team member will have professional visits.)
Provide transportation to and from scheduled activities.
Learn about the team member's life, family, work, country, etc.and share yours with him/her.
Be a warm and welcoming Rotary host!

The Raffle for Eradicate Polio brought in $100.00 today. $50.00 goes to the Rotary International Eradicate Polio Fund, $25.00 went to the winning ticket number (and since that person did not claim it the money went to Eradicate Polio) and $25 was added to the kettle for the person who draws the Ace of Spades.

PROGRAM (December 3, 2002)

Ron Ellis of Endocyte was introduced by ELSA JANLE. He spoke to us about the development of drugs to cure cancer and perhaps autoimmune diseases. They are experimenting with folate to trick cancer cells into accepting drugs. This targeting agent helps prevent side effects and produces a more effective result.

VISITING ROTARIAN: ED ELLIOTT from Naples, FL; KEITH MORGAN from Kokomo Noon.

GUESTS: Martha Tacker, guest of MARIELLEN NEUDECK, Donna Tiger, guest of OSCAR HOPKINS

STUDENT GUESTS: Craig Hodges and Kathleen Williamson from Jefferson High School were our student guests today. They received a certificate and a travel mug with the four-way test to commemorate their visit with us.

MEETING FUNCTIONS: Money Collectors: JIM CARNEY - 11:15 to 11:45 a.m., and TOM MORAN and TED WOLFE - 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m; Greeter - JAN GRIFFIN KOHLER; Invocation - JIM HOBBS; and Music - BOB GRIFFITHS and student guests. RAY PEETERS and HARLEY FREY at the piano. JO WADE assisted at the back table.

ELECTION OF OFFICERS FOR 2002/2003

The nominating committee presents the following slate, which will be voted upon at the December 17th meeting:

President: BETTY SUDDARTH; President Elect: TOM SCHMIDT; Vice President: SUSAN HYCHKA; Treasurer: ERNIE POLAND; Assistant Treasurer: JOHN TROTT; Secretary: JANE TURNER; Board Members: KATHY MEEKS AND PHIL KLINGER - town; KIRK CLARK AND LARRY HUGGINS - gown.

FAMILY NEWS

Congratulations to the family of PHIL SWAIN who greeted a 3rd grandchild � a little girl.

BIRTHDAY TABLE for DECEMBER

(apologies for not including it last week)

BILL ANDREWS

12/1

JOE BOORMAN

12/17

MORGAN BURKE

12/17

GORDON CHAVER

12/10

JEFFREY DARLING

12/5

ELAINE ELLISON

12/26

BARBARA HANSEN

12/14

MICHAEL HUNT

12/9

ELSA JANLE

12/23

RAY KAVANAUGH

1216

DAVID LUHMAN

12/22

ERIC MURPHY

12/28

GREG NAPIER

12/25

KEVIN O'BRIEN

12/17

EARL PARK

12/31

CARL REW

12/20

DICK SMITH

12/27

VIRGIL ST. JOHN

12/18

BETTY SUDDARTH

12/12

LARRY TIPTON

12/11

DAVID ZIMMERMAN

12/14

NOVEMBER 100% CLUB

ADAMS (126); ANDERSON; BARRETT (63); BOUGH, ADRIENNE; BOUGH (23); BROCK (101); CHISCON, AL (155); CHISCON, MARTHA (148); COHEN, FRITZ (82); COURTANEY (63); DAY; FEUER (239); FILMER (82); FOSTER (87); FREY, HARLEY (183); FULLER (223); FUNK, CHRIS (58); GRIFFITH (286); GRIFFITHS (86); HALL, MARGARET (140); HAMMEL; HANKS (54); HANSEN (54); HATFIELD (263); HEMMER; HERNANDEZ; HILLS; HOBBS (105); HOLTZ (16); HOPKINS (88); HUGHES; IRVIN; JACKSON (84); JANLE (64); KECK (82); KEPLER (150); KINGMA; GRIFFIN KOEHLER (136); LANDGREBE (149); LANE (491); LOVELL (4); MC CARTHY (54); MC HENRY (87); MILLER, BILL R. (364); MITCHELL (155); NELSON (96); PAPE (267); PARK (38); POLAND (6); RAHDERT (124); SANDERSON (10); SCHMIDT (289); SMITH, JAMES; SMITH, KEITH (68); SMITH, SUSAN (125); ST. JOHN (58); STEVENSON (4); SUDDARTH (64); TEDER, DAN (128); TROTT (7); TURLEY (185); VERPLANK (451); WADE (107); WEST (113); and WILEY (267).

CONGRATULATIONS to BETTY NELSON who had 8 years of 100% attendance at the end of November 2002.