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    PROGRAM for JUNE 8:

    "The Nature Conservancy", Mary McConnell, Indiana State Director, The Nature Conservancy

    MEETING FUNCTIONS:

    Money Collectors:
    MARTHA CHISCON - 11:15 to 11:45 a.m.,
    CECIL BLIGNAUT - 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
    Greeter:
    STEVE STUCKY
    Invocation:
    JIM BODENMILLER, chair


    JUNE PROGRAMS: BILL LOVELL, chair

    • JUNE 15 - "NICHES", Susan Ulrich,Naturalist, A Niches Founder

    • June 22 - Community Avenue of Service, SATTERLY, Senior Director, SANDERSON and MEEKS

    • June 29 - Officer Transition


    CLUB CONCERNS:

    PRESIDENT BETTY SUDDARTH, requested members/spouses to keep the following in their thoughts and prayers: JOHN MC KEE, FAE SPURLOCK, Marjorie spouse of DICK WALKER, BOB WILKINSON, HANLY HAMMEL and GRIFF.

    EUDORA MCKEE passed away Tuesday night. Our thoughts and prayers are with JOHN MCKEE and his family. Funeral at 11:00 AM on Saturday at the Christian Church in Williamsport.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS:

    • PRESIDENT BETTY thanked SUSAN HYCHKA for chairing the meeting last week.

    • BILL HATFIELD announced that our District's Centennial Project will be to support Riley Hospital. There will be a picnic with the Thunderbirds at Mt. Comfort Airport on Friday July 30th, 6 - 9 P.M. The $35 ticket will get you a meal catered by St. Elmo's Steak House and Marsh Supermarkets, a social hour which includes ramp time to view a B-17, a P-38, and many other warbirds and special unique planes. Following the meal, four former Thurderbirds who have reached the rank of General will have time to speak. All proceeds go to Riley Hospital. Please contact BILL for tickets.

    • More District News: The Rotary Club of Fishers invites all Rotarians to join them Friday June 25th at 6 P.M. at Oak Hill Mansion, Carmel, to honor outgoing District Governor Karin Blue and to install Governor-Elect Don Phelan. Cost is $35. Please RSVP by June 18th to Diane Eaton at 317- 557-5767 or balmoralclub@aol.com

    • A reception for new members will be held June 23rd, from 5 - 8 P.M. at BETTY SUDDARTH'S home. New members since December and their sponsors should mark your calendars!

    • June is "Bring an Intern or Doctoral Candidate to Rotary" month

      During the month of June the Rotary Club is encouraging members to treat their summer Interns or Doctoral Candidates to lunch with Rotary. This gives them the opportunity to see what Rotary is about and encourage them to look into a club when they land a job later in their lives. Please have the guest registered with JANE at the back table and they will be introduced during the meeting. JANE has a pamphlet explaining Rotary to give them. This is a great opportunity to get the word of Rotary out to the young working force. Any questions, ask DAVE LAHR, 742-6905.

    • LES REKER, chair of the Culture Committee, reminded us of the following events in June:

    • June 5 - September 9 "They Fly at Night" digital images of moths
      And Hollis Sigler: Breast Cancer Journal at the
      dd>Art Museum of Greater Lafayette,
    • June 5 "A Touch of Ireland" Tippecanotes
      7 PM at Long Center
    • June 5, 12, 19, 26 Breakfast with Bob Kriebel,
      9AM TCHA's Wetherill Center
    • June 16, 17 & 18 "Carousel" at the Amphitheater
      by Civic Theater
    • June 20 Restoring Photos Digitally,
      9 AM TCHA
    • June 26 Family Day at the Fort
      9 - 5 Fort Ouiatenon
    • June 26 "With a Voice of Singing"
      1 PM Bach Chorale


    THANK YOU:

    Dear Jane,

    I want to thank the members of the Rotary Club for the very attractive plant. The Chemotherapy treatment of the Mesothelioma seems to be positive. The big problem that I have is fatigue. I do not feel uncomfortable. I can sleep any time with no trouble.

    Very truly yours,
    Bob Wilkinson

    BIRTHDAY TABLE:

    BIRTHDAY TABLE CORKY MITCHELL introduced 19 members who are celebrating another year in June and announced that $1,200 has been contributed so far.

    CONGRATULATIONS:

    TOM PEARSON, President of the Lafayette Rotary Foundation, recognized KEN DECKER for reaching the Golden Service Level of contribution to our local foundation. Thanks KEN!

    WELCOME NEW MEMBER:

    DAVE LANDGREBE, substituting for CHRIS JOHANNSEN, introduced Gilbert Rochon as our newest member. A native of New Orleans, Gilbert lives with his wife, Patricia at 2480 North River Road, West Lafayette, IN 47906, Phone 497-2484. He is Associate Vice President for Collaborative Research at Purdue University, 151 South Grant Street, West Lafayette, IN 47906, Phone: 496-2274; E-mail: rochon@purdue.edu


    PROGRAM:

    BILL LOVELL introduced Eric Myers, Executive Director of Indiana Heritage Trust, which was created in 1992 as a public/private conservation program. Sale of eight hundred thousand special license plates provide important financial support for this program in light of the fact that no funds have been available from the General Assembly for two years. In addition to sharing with us what the Trust does, he also answered many questions about the DNR in what he calls "Stump the Ranger".

    VISITING ROTARIAN:

    ED ELLIOTT, Naples, FL.

    GUESTS:

    Rogers Mubanga, guest of JACK KELLEY

    THANKS TO THOSE WHO HELP WITH MEETING FUNCTION:

    Money Collectors: MARTHA CHISCON 11:15 to 11:45 a.m., and MARGARET HALL 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m,; Greeter: GUY THOMAS; Invocation: TOM SCHMIDT; Music: BOB VERPLANK with REX KEPLER at the piano; RAY PEETERS for dinner music and; JO WADE for help at the back table.



    • Recent resignations from our club: TRACIE HUGHES (Moving to Indianapolis)

    • The Rotary year ends on 30 June 2004. Contributions to the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International Annual Fund ensure that adequate SHARE funds are available to District 6560 (and Lafayette Rotary Club) to support Ambassadorial Scholars, Group Study Exchange and Matching Grants. Please join in by making a Rotary Year end gift. Make checks out to: Lafayette Rotary Foundation. Memo section should indicate TRF Annual Fund. Please send checks to DAVE LANDGREBE or deliver to JANE or DAVE at a Club meeting in June. Please feel free to contact JIM TURLEY for more information.

    100% CLUB:

    ADAMS (144); ANDERSON (4); BARRETT (81); BATAGIANNIS (3); BOUGH, DAVE (41); BROCK (119); BURCH; CARPENTER; CHISCON, AL (173); CHISCON, MARTHA (166); CLARK; COHEN, FRITZ (100); COPPOC (4); COURTANEY (81); FEUER (257); FILMER (100); FOSTER (105); FREY, HARLEY (201); FULLER (241); GRABOWSKI (3); GRIFFITH (284); GRIFFITHS (104); GUSTAFSON; HALL, MARGARET (158); HANKS (72); HATFIELD (281); HEMMER; HERNANDEZ; HILLS; HOBBS (123); HOPKINS (106); HUGGINS (2); HYCHKA (10); JANLE (82); JOHANNSEN; KECK (100); KELLEY, JACK (19); KELLEY, LETA (19); KLINGER; KLUSMAN; GRIFFIN KOEHLER (154); LAHR (3); LANDGREBE (167); LIGHT (13); LOVELL (2); MC HENRY (105); MEEKS, KATHY (2); MILLER, W.R. (382); MITCHELL (172); NELSON (114); NEUDECK (4); OLSON; PAPE (285); POLAND (22); RAHDERT (143); SANDERSON (28); SATTERLY; SCHMIDT (307); SMITH, KEITH (86); SMITH, SUSAN (143); ST. JOHN (75); STUCKY (2); SUDDARTH (82); TROTT (25); TURLEY (203); VERPLANK (469); WADE (125); WEST (131); WILEY (285) and ZIEMER (2).

    CONGRATULATIONS to JIM HANKS who had 6 years, and to BOB ADAMS who had 12 years of 100% attendance as of the end of May, 2004.

    COMMITTEES FOR 2003-2004:

    Click on the above link to see those who work to make our Club great.

    PRESIDENT BETTY'S WISDOM:

    From the Readers Digest:

    Walking through the jungle, a hunter found a dead, ferocious-looking rhinoceros with a Pygmy standing proudly beside it. Amazed he asked, "Did you kill that Rhino?" "Why, yes," said the Pygmy. "How could a little fellow like you kill a beast like that?" "I killed it with my club," explained the Pygmy. The astonished hunter exclaimed, "Wow! How big is your club?" The Pygmy replied, "There are about 90 of us."


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