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Volume 90, Number 39 - April 5, 2005
PROGRAM for APRIL 12:
Alan Alexander, District Manager
MEETING FUNCTIONS:
Money Collectors:
Greeter:
Invocation:
APRIL PROGRAMS:
April 19 Scholarship/Citizenship Awards
CLUB CONCERNS:
PRESIDENT TOM SCHMIDT requested members/spouses to keep the following in their thoughts and prayers: JOHN MC KEE; Marjorie, wife of DICK WALKER; MARGARET HALL; DALE MC HENRY; and the family and friends of BOB WILKINSON who died Sunday.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
- FRITZ COHEN thanked those who volunteered for the Shots Not Spots project: LETA KELLEY, JAYNE FEATHERS, MARTHA CHISCON, FRANCIS PRITSCHER, BETTY NELSON, RAY PEETERS, TOM MORAN, LEONA COHEN, FRITZ COHEN
- 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
- 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.
- LES REKER, chair of the Culture Committee, made the following suggestions for your consideration in April:
- April 3 - Verdi's Aida, 3:00 Elliot Hall of Music
- April 3 - Black Voices of Inspiration Spring Concert, 3:00 Loeb Playhouse
- April 7 - The Full Monty, 7:30 Elliot Hall of Music
- April 8 - Larry the Cable Guy, 8:00 Elliot Hall of Music
- April 1 - 3, 8-10, 15-17 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Civic Theater
- April 9 - Pioneer Days, 1 - 5 PM, TCHA
- April 9 - Art League Style Show Luncheon, 11:30, Best Western Hotel
- April 9 - Lafayette Symphony Orchestra Concert, 8:00, Long Center
- April 15 - Le Trio Gershwin, 8:00, Loeb Playhouse
- April 16 - Appraisal Fair, 1 - 4 PM, TCHA
- April 16/17 - Plow Days, 10 AM - 5 PM, Prophetstown Museum
- April 18 - Server Olympics, 6 - 8 PM, Lafayette Theater
- April 22 - John Scofield Trio, 8:00, Loeb Playhouse
- April 23 - Bach Choral Rochmaninoff Conert, 8:00, St. Boniface Church
- April 24 - "New Artists", Art Museum
BIRTHDAY TABLE:
LETA KELLEY introduced the members celebrating a birthday in April and announced that more than $1,000 had been collected so far with more on the way. Thanks to this generous group!
ROTARY FACT:
Your financial gifts of the Every Rotarian Every Year support the Annual Program Funds. The Annual Programs Fund is the primary source of unrestricted support for the programs of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International. The mission of the Annual Programs Fund mirrors that of The Rotary Foundation: to support the efforts of Rotary International in the achievement of world understanding and peace through local, national, and international humanitarian, educational, and cultural programs.
The Annual Programs Fund supports Foundation programs in 163 countries on seven continents. From digging clean water wells for villages in Africa to teaching basic literacy skills to children in Latin America, during any given moment in a day, thousands of Rotarians volunteer their time and expertise to ensure that all contributions given to the Annual Programs Fund are spent wisely on quality Rotary projects.
Your US$100 gift to the Annual Programs Fund helps provide:
- text books for one elementary school in Zambia
- cataract operations for three blind individuals
- in India mosquito netting for 35 homes to help prevent the spread of malaria in Bangladesh Your US$500 gift to the Annual Programs Fund helps provide
- watch repair mini-business for six disabled workers in the Philippines
- carpentry tools for a vocational workshop that trains 150 deaf children per year in Gambia
- five small sewing businesses to give poor mothers in Mexico the ability to lead more self-sufficient lives
What a difference annual giving makes, at least one hundred dollars per year will impact sometimes a whole village if not a whole family. Make a difference by contributing annually to the Every Rotarian Every Year program, it is the very least that you as a Rotarian can do to make a difference around the world.
PROGRAM:
| President Elect SUSAN HYCKHA introduced JOHN SANDERSON who completed the program that was cut short by time restrictions on January 4th. He reviewed the history of the hospitals, the beginning of health insurance, the impact of the space program of technology, hospital cost shifting, and Medicare's failure to pay its promised share. So what's broken? Just about everything. And how do we fix it? JOHN suggested several steps including a dual charge structure, elimination of the present convoluted payment structure, individual responsibility for lifestyle issues, and electronic data sharing. He feels business should take the lead, that consumers should be put in the drivers seat, that networks and discounts should be phased out and a level price playing field be established. There could be real lifestyle incentives and vouchers for low-income patients. All parties need to work together to re-engineer the whole system. The program ended with several good questions. | 
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STUDENT GUESTS:
BARB REIF introduced Danielle Stewart and Corey Stark from Harrison High School. Each received a certificate and a travel mug with the four- way test to commemorate meeting with us.
VISITING ROTARIANS:
JOS KIENHUIS, The Netherlands; JERRY HERSTON, Ft. Payne, AL; BRAD LINVILLE, Tallassee, AL; MAUREEN SMITT, Ft. Myers South; JUDY BUSH, District Governors Assistant
GUESTS:
Rich Groeber, guest of TOM SCHMIDT; Belinda Gibson, guest of BEN DAY; Jean Peterson, guest of CHRISTA KECK, who brought with her a group from The Netherlands: Taresa Taber Doughty, Kara Vloet, Wim Classen, Max Snippert, Karel Smeets, Carla van de Meykant; Rita Vossebelt.
THANKS TO THOSE WHO HELP WITH MEETING FUNCTION:
Money Collectors: FRED ANDERSON 11:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m., and ADRIENINE BOUGH 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m,; Invocation: JOE BOORMAN; Dinner Music: HARLEY FREY; Singing: REX KEPLER and BARB REIF; DAVE LAHR for help at the back table; BILL FULLER for help with Ripples.
COMMITTEES FOR 2004-2005:
Click on the above link to see those who work to make our Club great.
100% CLUB:
ANDERSON (4); BARRETT (91); BURCH (3); CARNEY (4); CHISCON, AL (183); CHISCON, MARTHA (176); CLARK (7); COHEN, FRITZ (2); COLE, FAYE; COLE, JERRY; COPPOC (2); DIESSLIN; FEATHERS; FEUER (267); FILMER (110); FOSTER (115); FREY, HARLEY (211); FULLER (251); GRACE (3); GRIFFITHS; HANSEN (10); HARDING (21); HATFIELD (291); HEMMER (4); HERNANDEZ; HOBBS (133); HOPKINS (2); HUNT (4); HYCHKA (20); JANLE (92); KECK (110); KELLEY, JACK (29); KELLEY, LETA (29); KINGMA (2); KLUSMAN (3); GRIFFIN KOEHLER (164); LANDGREBE (177); LIGHT (23); LUZADER (2); MC CARTHY (4); MC HENRY (2); MILLER, W.R. (392); MITCHELL (182); MORAN (4); NELSON (124); OLSON (3); PARK (3); PARKHURST; PEETERS (3); POLAND (32); PRITSCHER (2); RAHDERT (153); REGER (3); SANDERSON (38); SATTERLY; SCHMIDT (317); SMITH, JAMES (4); SMITH, KEITH (96); SMITH, SUSAN (153); ST. JOHN (85); SUDDARTH (92); TROTT (35); VERPLANK (479); WADE (135); and WEST (141).
CONGRATULATIONS to KEITH SMITH who had 8 years of 100% attendance as of the end of March, 2005.
PRESIDENT TOM'S
WISDOM: Before going to Europe on business, a man drove his Rolls Royce to a downtown NY City bank and went in to ask for an immediate loan of $5,000. The loan officer, taken aback, requested collateral.
"Well, then, here are the keys to my Rolls Royce," the man said. The loan officer promptly had the car driven into the bank's underground parking for safe keeping, and gave him $5,000.
Two weeks later, the man walked through the bank's doors, and asked to settle up his loan and get his car back. "That will be $5,000 in principal, and $15.40 in interest," the loan officer said. The man wrote out a check and started to walk away.
"Wait sir," the loan officer said, "while you were gone I learned that you are a millionaire. Why in the world would you need to borrow $5,000?" The man smiled. "Where else could I park my Rolls Royce in Manhattan for two weeks and pay only $15.40?"
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