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Volume 90, Number 36 - March 15, 2005
PROGRAM for MARCH 22:
Sanders Howse, President - GLCDC
The Greater Lafayette Community Development Corporation Today
MEETING FUNCTIONS:
Money Collectors:
Greeter:
Invocation:
MARCH PROGRAMS:
29 - Vocational Avenue of Service
CLUB CONCERNS:
PRESIDENT ELECT SUSAN HYCHKA requested members/spouses to keep the following in their thoughts and prayers: JOHN MC KEE; Marjorie, wife of DICK WALKER; Ellen, wife of LES REKER who is having more back surgery; FAYE COLE whose sister is in grave condition; MARGARET HALL.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
- Ted Luce, President Elect of the Lafayette Kiwanis Club, presented a donation of $100 to the Lafayette Rotary Club in celebration of 100 years of Rotary. This money is to go to the disaster relief fund. Many thanks to Ted and our friends in Kiwanis!
- Rotarian of the Year applications are available. Please submit your completed application to JANE by April 5th.
- Three years ago our Club pledged $25,000 to the Eradicate Polio project. We are $1,272.16 short of that pledge. If you can help, please write your check before June 15th.
- PHIL KLINGER want all of you golfers (men and women) to put June 30th on your calendar. There will be another Fun Raiser at the Elks Golf Course at 1:00. Stay tuned for details.
- We are about $5,000 short of our goal of $35,000 for the Centennial Overlook Project on the Wabash Heritage Trail. Contributions would be welcomed by the Lafayette Rotary Foundation.
- FRITZ COHEN announced that Shots Not Spots will occur again on Wednesday March 30th from 11 AM to 6 PM at the Tippecanoe County Health Office on 6th Street. Seven people are needed to complete the project. The children served are either not insured or are under-insured. Our health department depends on our volunteer help to make the program possible.
FAMILY NEWS:
Laura Coppoc Cummings, daughter of GORDON COPPOC, lives in England and plays violin in the Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra. She wrote: "I played a great fun concert in Nottingham last night for the 100th anniversary of Rotary. There were Rotarians everywhere! We played lots of American music, and there were two flags over the orchestra: the Union Jack and the American flag." The web site for the concert and the celebration is - http://www.rotary1220.org/02/rotary/Centennial/NPO_concert.htm
ROTARY FACT:
The quest for world understanding and peace has been a cornerstone of Rotary since its early days. At the 1921 convention in Edinburgh, Scotland, Rotarians unanimously agreed to incorporate peacemaking into Rotary's constitution and bylaws. At the 1940 convention in Havana, Cuba, Rotarians adopted a resolution calling for "freedom, justice, truth, sanctity of the pledged word, and respect for human rights" that became the framework for the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
PROGRAM:
| FAYE COLE, Program Chair for March, introduced Jay Schlaifer, M.D., who presented a very interesting program on the history of Coronary Artery Disease. With the help of Power Point slides, he described the evolution of Angioplasty, the current use of stents, and the possibility of bio- absorbable stents in the future. Several good questions came from members following Dr. Schlaifer's prepared remarks. | 
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EARL PARK introduced John Korb and Erika Fenoglio from Central Catholic High School. Each received a certificate and a travel mug with the four-way test to commemorate meeting with us.
GUESTS:
Sulma Mohammed, guest of GILBERT ROCHON
THANKS TO THOSE WHO HELP WITH MEETING FUNCTION:
Money Collectors: JIM SMITH 11:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m., and PAUL ZIEMER 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m,; Greeter: MICHAEL HUNT; Invocation: JIM HOBBS; Dinner Music: HARLEY FREY; Singing: HARLEY FREY and ARVID OLSON; JO WADE for help at the back table; BILL FULLER for help with Ripples; JAN GRIFFIN KOEHLER for photographs, and BRUCE HARDING for continual help with the web site.
- STILL WANTED: If you have upgraded your laptop computer and are wondering what to do with the old one, Rotary may be able to use it. We need a laptop with Excel and PowerPoint capabilities. Please contact me if you can help.
- Board of Director's Report:
- LARRY HUGGINS will be resigning at the end of this semester. The
board approved JEFF DARLING to fill his term.
- The Planning Committee is working on the Strategic Plan.
- SUSAN HYCHKA and TOM SCHMIDT reported on the PETS Conference
(a District meeting). District dues will go up $1 per member. The inbound
GSE team will arrive from Mexico next March. A Paul Harris Society is
proposed for our District. Society members are those who contribute
$1,000 each year to The Rotary Foundation (International).
- The Board approved charging $25 per person for the trip to Chicago to
see the Rotary International Convention Parade on June 18th. This
includes transportation and a family style chicken dinner at Teibels.
Members of other clubs will be charged $50.
- ROB NOLL was encouraged to pursue the "Computers for the World"
project, which was mentioned in last month's Rotarian.
- Dues statements will be mailed April 1st.
COMMITTEES FOR 2004-2005:
Click on the above link to see those who work to make our Club great.
SUSAN'S
WISDOM: A mechanic was removing a cylinder head from the motor of a Harley, when he spotted a world-famous heart surgeon in his shop. The heart surgeon was waiting for the service manager to come take a look at his bike. The mechanic shouted across the garage, "Hey Doc can I ask you a question?" The famous surgeon, a bit surprised, walked over to the mechanic working on the motorcycle. The mechanic straightened up, wiped his hands on a rag and asked, "So Doc, look at this engine - the heart of this Harley. I also can open hearts, take valves out, fix'em, put in new parts and when I finish this will work just like a new one. So how come I get a pittance and you get the really big money, when you and I are doing basically the same work?" The surgeon paused, smiled and leaned over, and whispered to the mechanic: "Try doing it with the engine running!
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