Ripples


    Volume 90, Number 1 - July 6, 2004

    PROGRAM for JULY 13:

    Bob Kriebel, Civil War and Lincoln too!

    MEETING FUNCTIONS:

    Money Collectors:
    VICKI BURCH -11:15 to 11:45 a.m.,
    LETA KELLEY - 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
    Greeter:
    JACOB WILLIAMS
    Invocation:
    JIM TURLEY


    JULY PROGRAMS: DON GUSTAFSON, chair

    ENTER Programs
    • July 20 - LAWRENCE TEDER
      WWII Submarine Warfare in the Pacific

    • July 27 - Tom Schott, Intercollegiate Athletics
      "Instant Replay in Big Ten Football?


    CLUB CONCERNS:

    PRESIDENT TOM SCHMIDT, 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 (who requests calls and notes); Jan, spouse of FRED ANDERSON; and TOM ROBINSON who had heart surgery and is recovering.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS:

    • SUSAN HYCHKA, chair of the Centennial Project announced that $5,000 has been pledged by Lafayette Rotary Foundation and between the two boards an additional $2,600 has already been raised toward a $35,000 goal.
    • "Shots not Spots." Tippecanoe County Health Department will immunize Kindergardners and 6th Graders against common childhood diseases on Wednesday, August 4, 2004. Location: 629 N 6th Street, Lafayette (the old County Jail) from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Our club will again support this effort with volunteers. A sign-up sheet, with time slots (11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.; 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.) will be posted at our next club meeting. The Community Services Committee appreciates your help.

    PHIL KLINGER has arranged a Rotarian Golf Outting on August 12 at 1:00 at the Elks Country Club. It will be a "Florida Scramble". Cost is $30. Mark your calendar and join your fellow golfers for a fun afternoon of fellowship.

    The Family of Rotary is presenting the Children's Program on August 3, 2004. Tom Turpin from Purdue's Entomology Department will be our speaker and will present his "bugs" for our enjoyment. The meeting will be held on the Terrace at University Inn where we will enjoy a "picnic" under the tent. Cost is $8 per adult and $6 per child (age 12 and under). Please invite your children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews for this enjoyable family picnic.


    BIRTHDAY TABLE:

    FRED ANDERSON, Chair of July's Birthday Table introduced members celebrating birthdays in July and announced they had raised $2,775.

    ROTARY FACT:

    This is our first Rotary Meeting of the Rotary Centennial Year. Rotary, the world's first service club, was started in the evening of February 23, 1905, in Gustavus Loehr's business office, Room 711 of the Unity Building in downtown Chicago. Paul Harris, an attorney, invited three business friends; Silvester Schiele, a coal dealer, Hiram Schorey, a merchant tailor and Gustavus Loehr, a mining engineer to meet on a weekly bases with the vision of a club of professionals meeting for fellowship and friendship The name "Rotary" derived from the early practice of rotating meetings among members' offices.

    PROGRAM:

    DON GUSTAFSON introduced MAURI WILLIAMSON who gave a very nice summary of the history of America as a melting pot and how the cross sections from other countries came together in America to make us a better, stronger place. In one of MAURI'S famous asides, he mentioned that this was the first time that the main speech was shorter than the invocation (which was in story form).


    VISITING ROTARIAN:

    MAUREEN SMITT from Ft. Myers South and ED ELLIOTT from Naples, FL

    GUESTS:

    Ted Fuller, son of BILL FULLER; Nina Sonnenber, daughter of MARK DAVIS; Frank Peterson, guest of MICHAEL HUNT; Pat Corey, wife of JOHN COREY.

    THANKS TO THOSE WHO HELP WITH MEETING FUNCTION:

    Money Collectors: JACK KELLEY 11:15 to 11:45 a.m., and LETA KELLEY 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m,; Greeter: KATHY KROLL; Invocation: JIM TURLEY; Music: BOB VERPLANK with REX KEPLER at the piano; HARLEY FREY for dinner music; and JO WADE for help at the back table, and DICK BARTHOLOMEW for taking notes for Ripples.


    100% CLUB:

    ADAMS (145); ANDERSON (5); BARRETT (82); BOUGH, ADRIENNE; BOUGH, DAVE (42); BROCK (120); CHISCON, AL (174); CHISCON, MARTHA (167); COHEN, FRITZ (101); COHEN, LEONA; COPPOC (5); COURTANEY (82); DELL; DOVERSBERGER; FEUER (258); FILMER (101); FOSTER (106); FREY, HARLEY (202); FULLER (242); GRABOWSKI (4); GRIFFITH (285); GRIFFITHS (105); HALL (159); HANKS (73); HANSEN; HATFIELD (282); HERNANDEZ (2); HOBBS (124); HOPKINS (107); HYCHKA (11); JANLE (83); KECK (101); KELLEY, JACK (20); KELLEY, LETA (20); KLINGER (2); GRIFFIN KOEHLER (155); KROLL; LANDGREBE (168); LIGHT (14); LOVELL (3); MC HENRY (106); MILLER, W.R. (383); MITCHELL (173); MORAL; NELSON (115); PAPE (286); PARK; POLAND (23); RAHDERT (144); RUNNELS; SANDERSON (29); SATTERLY (2); SCHMIDT (308); SMITH, KEITH (87); SMITH, SUSAN (144); ST. JOHN (76); STEVENSON; STUCKY (3); SUDDARTH (83); TEDER, LAWRENCE; TROTT (26); TURLEY (204); VERPLANK (470); WADE (126); WALKER; WEST (132); WHISTLER; and WILEY (286).

    CONGRATULATIONS to BOB BROCK who had 10 years, to TERRY WEST who had 11 years, to DICK RAHDERT and SUSAN SMITH who had 12 years, to DAVE LANDGREBE who had 14 years, and to JIM TURLEY who had 17 years of 100% attendance as of the end of June, 2004.

    COMMITTEES FOR 2003-2004:

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

    PRESIDENT TOM'S WISDOM

    When I think of a program by MAURI, brutal honesty always comes to mind. Let me close with a little holy humor about brutal honesty:

    "Three families sat down to eat dinner. The hostess said to her young daughter, 'Honey, would you say the blessing for us?' 'I don't know,' said the youngster. 'I don't know what to say.' 'Just say what you've heard Mommy say,' responded her mother. 'Okay,' she said. 'Dear God, why did I invite all these people over?'"


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