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Volume 90, Number 22 - November 30, 2004

PROGRAM for DECEMBER 7:



December 7, 2004 Pearl Harbor Day Remembrance Special music arranged by SUSAM SMITH Comments by Robert Kriebel Memories of December 7, 1941 from our own Rotarians



MEETING FUNCTIONS:

Money Collectors:

TOM MORAN - 11:15 to 11:45 a.m.,
ANGEL HERNANDEZ - 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

Greeter:
RONDA WALSH SCHWAB, chair

Invocation:
PHIL SWAIN

DECEMBER PROGRAMS:


December 14 - Robert E. Poynter, esq., "The Magic of Estate Planning"


December 21 - Holiday Music

Burnett Creek Elementary School Choir Directed by Mary Jane Gregan


CLUB CONCERNS:

PRESIDENT TOM SCHMIDT requested members/spouses to keep the following in their thoughts and prayers: JOHN MC KEE; FAE SPURLOCK; HANLY HAMMEL. We were pleased to have MARIELLEN NEUDECK back at lunch today reporting that Gerry is making progress.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• This Tuesday is the regular time for food collection, this time for Hanna center. They use the staples for meals and special foods are used as prizes for their Bingo Nights. You could bring some Holiday staple this month.


• Jane - I have joined the Urbana Noon Rotary Club in Urbana, IL. My new work address is 303 W. University, Urbana, IL 61801. Give everyone my best. - Vicki Mayes


• 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.


• ANN PICHOTA invited us to sign up for your time and place to ring the bell for Salvation Army on December 11th. There are 14 open slots to choose from.


• 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 Vectren 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.


• We're looking for Rotarian Euchre players!
When: Saturday, January 8th, 7:00 p.m.

Where: Home of Ernie and Linda Poland

What to Bring: Hors'doeuvre

RSVP to Adrienne Bough 420-8020



• INVITATION to Lafayette Rotary Club:


Together with their parents

Miss Martha J. Hoyos and Mr. Andres Sanchez

Invite you to join the celebration of their marriage

Saturday, the Eighth of January, Two Thousand Five

Ten thirty in the morning

San Anselmo Church

Medillin, Columbia

South America



• The Community Projects committee will meet in the Tailgate Lounge at 11 PM.

ROTARY FACT:

One of the service functions of the Lafayette Rotary Club is to carry out programs of financial assistance to worthy causes of Tippecanoe County, the nation and the world. The international portion, and most national portions of this work are done through the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, (RIF). In 1970 the Lafayette Rotary Club voted to establish a not-for-profit foundation as a vehicle to collect and disburse funds for charitable purposes in the Lafayette area. Thus a separate organization, the Lafayette Rotary Foundation, (LRF), was created by the Lafayette Rotary Club. It is incorporated under the laws of the state of Indiana as a 501(c)3 (tax exempt) organization to serve as the vehicle for aiding local causes. The Articles of Incorporation state "The purposes for which the Corporation is formed is ... to disburse such funds so collected exclusively to the benevolent, educational, charitable, religious, humanitarian, and eleemosynary purposes..." In the years of the Lafayette Rotary Foundation's existence more than $700,000 has been distributed for charitable purposes by the Foundation. In addition, an invested reserve has accumulated more than one quarter million dollars, the income from which is available for further causes.

PROGRAM:

DICK BARTHOLOMEW and DAVE LUHMAN presented an entertaining and informative class on the basics for Charitable Contributions. After DICK'S quick course on tax law, DAVE brought his "baggage" to DICK for advise regarding distribution. We were reminded that "Uncle Sam" helps us to be charitable if we do it right.


STUDENT GUESTS:

KEN EWING introduced Sandra Morris and Clinton Johnson from McCutcheon High School. Each received a certificate and a travel mug with the four-way test to commemorate meeting with us.

GUESTS:

Julie Lahner, guest of JANE TURNER; Kim Reisman, guest of BARB REIF; Todd Coleman, guest of BOB GRIFFITHS.

THANKS TO THOSE WHO HELP WITH MEETING FUNCTION:

Money Collectors: VICKI BURCH 11:15 to 11:45 a.m., and JAN GRIFFIN KOEHLER 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m,; Greeter: FRANCIS PRITSCHER, Invocation: FAYE COLE; Music: HARLEY FREY for dinner music and for singing, JOHN BARRETT; JOE WADE for help at the back table; BILL FULLER for help formatting and distributing Ripples; and JAN GRIFFIN KOEHLER for photographs.



• In the Season of "Mark-downs", do I have a deal for you! Beginning Tuesday, January 4, 2005, the price for lunch will be $9 (not $10 as previously printed).


COMMITTEES FOR 2004-2005:

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

DECEMBER BIRTHDAYS:



ANDREWS, JR. WILLIAM C.	12/1	BOORMAN, JOE	12/17
BURKE, MORGAN J.	12/17	CHAVERS, GORDON D.	12/10
DARLING, JEFFREY C.	12/5	ELLISON, ELAINE	12/26
GOUDY, TRACI	12/1	HANSEN, BARBARA	12/1
HORNETT, JOSEPH B.	12/3	HUNT, MICHAEL O.	12/9
JANLE, ELSA M.	12/23	KAVANAUGH, JR. RAPHAEL R.	12/16
LUHMAN, DAVID W.	12/22	MURPHY, ERIC	12/28
O'BRIEN, KEVIN	12/17	PARK, EARL L.	12/31
REW, CARL R.	12/20	ST. JOHN, C. VIRGIL	12/18
SUDDARTH, BETTY M.	12/12	TIPTON, LARRY L.	12/11



PRESIDENT TOM'S WISDOM:

There are a variety of ways to raise income, the following Insurance Claim comes from the Virginia State Police, Insurance Fraud Division. It does not come recommended as a way to try and increase your income.

A Charlotte, North Carolina man having purchased a box of very rare, very expensive cigars insured them against fire among other things. Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of cigars and without having made even his first premium payment on the policy, the man filed a claim against the insurance company. In his claim, the man stated that the cigars were lost "in a series of small fires." The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason: that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion. The man sued and won.

In delivering the ruling, the judge agreed that the claim was frivolous. He stated nevertheless that the man held a policy from the company in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure against fire, without defining what is considered to be "unacceptable fire," and was obligated to pay the claim. Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid the man $15,000.00 for the rare cigars he had lost in the "fires."

After the man cashed the check, the insurance company had him arrested on twenty-four counts of ARSON. With his own insurance claim and testimony for the previous case being used against him, the man was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and sentenced to twenty-four months in jail and a $24,000.00 fine.

Case closed.
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Please remind the Community Projects committee that we will meet in the Tailgate Lounge at 11 PM.