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Volume 90, Number 44 - May 17, 2005
PROGRAM for MAY 24:
Leslie Taulman,
Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar to Bolivia and current MS student in Agricultural Economics,
"My Experience in Bolivia."
MEETING FUNCTIONS:
Money Collectors:
Greeter:
Invocation:
MAY PROGRAMS: chair
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May 31 Adrienne Bough and Fred Anderson,
"Health Savings Accounts - How They Work and Could They Help You?"
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June 7 Charles Santerre, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of Foods and Nutrition, Purdue University,
"Why Should We Eat Fish?" -
June 14 Family of Rotary Picnic
(bring spouses, kids, grandkids, etc),
"Kountry Kernals (part of the Fiddler's Gathering)" -
June 21 Richard Cosier, Dean, Krannert Graduate School of Management
and School of Management and Leeds Professor of Management,
"Business Schools and Ethics - - They Just Seem to Go Together" -
June 28 Tom Schmidt and Susan Hychka,
"Passing the Gavel: Lafayette Rotary in the Year to Come"
CLUB CONCERNS:
PRESIDENT TOM SCHMIDT requested members/spouses to keep the following in their thoughts and prayers: JOHN MC KEE; MARGARET HALL; DALE MC HENRY; FAYE COLE's sister, and the family and friends of GENE COURTANEY on the death of their daughter.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
- President TOM announced that at the Annual Dinner Wheelchairs had been given to the Wheelchair Project in the names of members who have belonged to Rotary for 50 years or more: ROY WHISTLER, 1949; HANLY HAMMEL, 1951; DICK GRIPE, 1953; MAURI WILLIAMSON, 1953; RALPH MORRIS, 1954; BILL HEATH, 1955; CHUCK HORNER, 1955. So far almost $700 have been received to fund this honor.
- The dedication of the Riverfront Overlook (our Centennial Project) will be held Tuesday, May 31st at 1:30 following our regular meeting. Instruction on where to park will be announced. It is hoped that we will have a respectable contingent of Rotarians present for this important event.
- The dedication of the Riverfront Overlook (our Centennial Project) will be held Tuesday, May 31st at 1:30 following our regular meeting. Instruction on where to park will be announced. It is hoped that we will have a respectable contingent of Rotarians present for this important event.
- PHIL KLINGER announced the Golf Tournament scheduled for June 30th at the Lafayette Elks Club at 1:00 P.M. California scramble. Prizes. Co- ed. $50 to play. The funds collected will go toward Polio Eradication.
- JACK KELLEY announced that thanks to DAVE BOUGH'S efforts, the Ethiopia project paper work is completed, allowing us to proceed with another matching grant. The India Sewing Machine project has been funded by our club. The Russian Open World Committee will meet June 2nd. Stay tuned for time and place.
- Click here for a photo album of the Annual Dinner.
ROTARY FACT:
Tajikistan became the 167th Rotary country when the Rotary Club of Dushanbe received its charter on April 5. The event was the culmination of an eight-year quest by some of the club's 36 charter members to bring Rotary to the Central Asian country. Ella Ryazanova, chair of the club's programs committee, was among the prospective members. In the late 1990s, she was head of a nongovernmental initiative aimed at identifying opportunities for individuals who wished to participate in the business and nonprofit sectors in transitional economies and postconflict countries. Ryazanova's team discovered Rotary while looking for examples of organizations that promote socially responsible conduct among business leaders and professionals. Inspired by Rotary's ideals, members of the group established what they called a "Friends of Rotary" club in Dushanbe . With the guidance of Renny Smith, wife of Rotarian, Grant Smith, the U.S. ambassador to Tajikistan at the time, the "friends" started propagating Rotary values.
In 2002, Nancy Pasternak, of the Rotary Club of Bellevue, Washington, USA, arrived in Dushanbe as a volunteer with Doctors Without Borders. She became a liaison between the Friends of Rotary club and RI World Headquarters. Two years later, RI gave the green light to form a provisional Rotary club in Dushanbe. "This was a chance of a lifetime to make a fine difference through Rotary and to carry on my father's legacy as a past district governor and very active Rotarian," says Pasternak. "My husband and I agreed I could afford to spend a month in Tajikistan to work on forming the club." Tajikistan joins District 2430, which includes Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
PROGRAM:
| JEANNE NORBERG introduced Steve Visser, Associate Professor of Industrial Design at Purdue, who shared with us some of the award winning concepts that have come from his students. A tricycle that makes learning to ride a bike much easier; a collapsible travel souvenir for easy packing; and a safer stove for African homes were some of the products. He ended the program by answering several interesting questions. | 
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BARB REIF introduced Ariel Steinweg-Woods and Curtis Kester From Harrison High School. Each received a certificate and a travel mug with the four-way test to commemorate meeting with us.
VISITING ROTARIANS:
ED ELLIOTT, Naples FL, H. E. PETERSEN, LaGrange, IN
GUESTS:
Ben Birtles, Rotaract Club Officer
THANKS TO THOSE WHO HELP WITH MEETING FUNCTION:
Money Collectors: LEW RUNNELS 11:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m., and BILL FULLER 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m,; Invocation: FRED KUIPERS; Dinner Music: REX KEPLER; Singing: HARLEY FREY and BOB GRIFFITHS; DAVE LAHR for help at the back table; BILL FULLER for help with Ripples, JAN GRIFFIN KOEHLER for photographs. JANE'S CORNER BLOCK
Joann Chaney, who will be moving to Michigan, has resigned from Rotary.
COMMITTEES FOR 2004-2005:
Click on the above link to see those who work to make our Club great.
PRESIDENT TOM'S
WISDOM: Two thoughts of humor for the day:
Don't be irreplaceable; if you cannot be replaced, you cannot be promoted.
Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be irreplaceable!