Volume 90, Number 21– November 23, 2004

 

PROGRAM for NOVEMBER 30

Saving Taxes through Charitable Giving, DICK

                   BARTHOLOMEW and DAVE LUHMAN

 

MEETING FUNCTIONS:

 

      Money Collectors:

                     VICKI BURCH     - 11:15 to 11:45 a.m.,

                     JAN GRIFFIN KOEHLER - 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

 

      Greeter:   FRANCIS PRITSCHER, chair

 

      Invocation:   FAYE COLE, chair

     

 

CLUB CONCERNS

PRESIDENT TOM SCHMIDT requested members/spouses to keep the following in their thoughts and prayers: JOHN MC KEE; FAE SPURLOCK; HANLY HAMMEL and Gerry, husband of MARIELLEN NEUDECK. 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

President TOM welcomed Kiwanians, Rotarians and guests to the annual Thanksgiving combined club meeting.

 

With the Lafayette Rotary Club assistance, Rotaract collected over 200 pounds of food for the recent food drive by the Purdue Boiler Volunteer

Network.  Thank you for your generous contributions.

 

Want to see fellow Rotarians at work?  Maybe you want to show that you really do work!  If you are interested in touring the business of a member or in hosting such a tour, contact JOE BOORMAN. 

 

CARL REW reminded us to sign up for your time and place to ring the bell for Salvation Army on December 11th.  There are 38 open slots to choose from.

 

FRITZ COHEN asked for volunteers to fill gift boxes for the YWCA’s Women’s Shelter on Friday, December 3rd.  Please contact FRITZ.

 

 

There are eight tickets not being used for the Indianapolis Colts/SanDeigo Chargers 1 PM game on December 26 at the RCA Dome.  These tickets were given to the workers at Hanna Center on Vectron Work Day in October, and they cannot use them.  The tickets are in a group together in Section 331, rows 25 and 26, so you will be with other Rotarians.  

 

We are going to hold a SILENT AUCTION for these tickets beginning at the meeting November 30 and going until December 14, when we will announce the winners during the meeting.  You will bid on each ticket you want.  There will be a sheet on the board at the back of the room for you to make your bids.  The money raised from this Auction will go toward upcoming Community Projects.   Any questions - see DAVE LAHR.

 

DAVID BOUGH, Nominating Committee Chair, announces that election of Directors and Officers will held Tuesday December 7, 2004.  Nominations will be accepted from the membership, but must be in the hands of the Nominations Committee by Friday November 26, 2004.  Each nomination must have written support of two (2) additional members and the written consent of the nominee.    

 

If you would be interested in going to Chicago on the Saturday preceding the start of the Rotary International Convention to rub elbows with Rotarians from all over the world and to see a big parade through the heart of the city, please sign up on the bulletin boards.  This is a survey to see if there will be enough interest to charter a bus.

 

December 7 program chair JOHN MEYERS asks that members who have

actual memories of December 7, 1941, to contact him. at 423-9168

(weekdays) or 414-0886 (cell) or at e-mail, either meyerslaw@aol.coor meyers@county.tippecanoe.in.us.

 

THANK YOU

Lafayette Noon Rotary Club,

Thank you so much for inviting me to lunch on November 2, 2004.  It was a pleasure to meet many of you, as your hospitality and friendliness were overwhelming.  Again, thank you for the opportunity,

Sincerely, Thomas Haan

 

WELCOME NEW MEMBER

ED WILLILAMS, Executive Director of the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra transferred his membership from Lincoln, Nebraska.  ED lives at 200 Windy Hill Drive, Lafayette, IN 47905.  His work address is P. O. Box 52, Lafayette, IN  47901.  Phone  742-6463     E-Mail:  ewilliams@nlci.com

 

ROTARY FACT:

November is Rotary International Foundation month and one of the programs supported by your annual giving is in the area of Special Project Implementation with Revolving Loans, also called microcredit or village banking.  These projects are primarily instituted in Third World countries where low-income persons are organized to borrow money, animals or equipment to facilitate small economic self-help enterprises. The funds continue to revolve; funds are loaned to beneficiaries, repaid and loaned again, hopefully in perpetuity.

A village bank, a credit group is a group of ten to thirty borrowers, organized, educated and trained in the rudiments of saving, credit and entrepreneurship, who cross-guarantee each others' loans to ensure repayment to the fund.

 

PROGRAM:

BARB REIF introduced fellow Rotarian JACOB WILLIAMS, senior pastor at Trinity United Methodist Church.   He presented several thoughts about Thanksgiving.  After sharing a moving story of a motherless child in Iowa who grew up to be a famous Doctor, JACOB concluded by saying that Thanksgiving is not just a day to remember what we have; it is also a day to remember what we have to give.   Marla Stanton sang You Raise Me Up

to end the program.

 

STUDENT GUESTS:

GREG REGER introduced Paul Hoffman from Indiana Business College.  He received a certificate and a travel mug with the four- way test to commemorate meeting with us.

 

VISITING ROTARIAN:

MAUREEN SMITT, Ft. Myers, South, FL; ED ELLIOTT, Naples, FL.

 

GUESTS:

Elizabeth Barrett, wife of JOHN BARRETT; Ann Hobbs, wife of JIM HOBBS; David Huang, guest of MARNE HELGESEN; Marla Stanton, guest of JACOB WILLIAMS; David Bathe, guest of BETTY DOVERSBERGER.

 

THANKS TO THOSE WHO HELP WITH MEETING FUNCTION:

Money Collectors: JIM SMITH 11:15 to 11:45 a.m., and JAN GRIFFIN KOEHLER 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m,; Greeter:  ELDON ORTMAN, Invocation:  DAVID BRIDGES; Music:  HARLEY FREY for dinner music featuring Broadway Tunes for singing, BOB VERPLANK and MAURI WILLIAMSON; ERNIE POLAND for help at the back table; BILL FULLER for help formatting and distributing Ripples.

 

TOM’S HUMOR:

In “A Thanksgiving Cookbook by Mrs. Geraghty's Kindergarten Class” the following ways to prepare Thanksgiving dinner were offered by kids.  Let me share just a few of their ways to cook. 

NOTE: Mrs. Geraghty will not be responsible for medical bills resulting from use of her cookbook.
Irene – Turkey

Put it on a plate and put it in the oven with gravy. You cook it for 1 minute and for 100 degrees. Then it's all cooked. Your mom or dad cuts it and then eat.
Grace – Turkey

First you add some salt. Then you put it in a bowl. Then you put brown sugar on it. Then you mix it all together with a spoon and then you add some milk and mix it again. And then you put it in a pan. Then you put it in the oven for 15 minutes and 16 degrees. Then you take it out of the oven and then you eat it.
Moriah – Turkey

First you cut the bones out. Then you put it in the oven for 10 hours at 600 degrees. Then you put it on the table and eat it.

Alan – Turkey

First you shoot it and then you cut it. And then you put it in the oven and cook it for 10 minutes and 20 degrees. You put it on plates and then you eat it.
Lauren – Turkey

First you find a turkey and kill it. Cut it open. Put it in a pan. Pour milk in the pan. Put a little chicken with it. Put salsa on it. Take out of pan. Put it on the board. Cut into little pieces. Put on a rack. Put in the oven for 7 minutes at 10 degrees. Take out of the oven and put eensy weensy bit of sugar on it. Put a little more salsa on it. Then you eat it.
Christopher - Pumpkin Pie

First you buy a pumpkin and smash it. Then it is all done. And you cook it in the oven for 12 minutes and 4 degrees. Then you eat it.

JANE’S CORNER:

 

Beginning Tuesday, January 4, 2005, the price for lunch will be $10.  If you have ever made up a meeting in another city (and especially in another country) you know that this is still a bargain.