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Volume 90, Number 44 - May 24, 2005
PROGRAM for MAY 31:
Sarah Helm - Office of Enrollment Management
"Purdue Opportunity Awards - Scholarships for Indiana Residents"
MEETING FUNCTIONS:
Money Collectors:
Greeter:
Invocation:
JUNE PROGRAMS:
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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 - TBA
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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; FAYE COLE's sister; RALPH MORRIS who has suffered a stroke and has had surgery in Florida; BILL HATFIELD whose eyesight is rapidly deteriorating. We were happy to have DALE MC HENRY back at Rotary today!
DAVID LANDGREBE has received word that long-time Rotarian DAVID DEWITT passed away on May 17.
SPECIAL GUEST:
| PRESIDENT TOM introduced Denny Miller, a former West Lafayette resident who now lives in California (the son of a Rotarian who was president of the Boswell Rotary Club). Denny has written a book about Indy race-car driver Eddie Sacks. He told a few stories about Sacks and donated a CD he produced to be one of the prizes at the upcoming Golf Outing. |  |
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
- Please plan to join us for the dedication of the Riverfront Overlook (our Centennial Project) on 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. Non-Rotarians are welcome. Non-golfers are encouraged to help with registration, contests and the meal following the game.
- MIKE PIGGOTT announced a Community Service opportunity at Glen Acres School on Saturday, June 4th. Two crews of 20 people (one morning and one afternoon) will be needed to help with new playground equipment. Please contact MIKE if you can help.
VOCATIONAL MOMENT:
ELSA JANLE introduced DAVE LANDGREBE who briefly described his career at Purdue University. He, along with a few others, started LARS (Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing). From its original mission to organize the enormous quantities of data coming from satallites, LARS expanded to become the largest research lab at Purdue.
In 1970 he became a Rotarian; served as President '83-'84, and was asked to be the Treasurer of the Foundation in '91. He continues to serve Rotary as Treasurer of he Foundation!
Click here for the full story.
THANK YOU:
Dear Jane:
I am flattered and honored that I have been deemed sufficiently deserving to have a wheelchair named for my 50 and more years of membership (and occasional attendance) in Lafayette Rotary. I appreciate it very much. In fact, I appreciate being a member of Rotary for those number of years. I wish my attendance record was a little better, but my heart is always there. It's a great club. It's nice to be recognized in such a useful way.
Rotarilly yours,
Mauri Williamson
ROTARY FACT:
Ambassadorial Scholarships
"The world's academic community has learned to appreciate Rotary ideals through the superb quality of Rotary Ambassadorial Scholars."
Martin Limbird,
Director, International Advancement, Ball State University
The Rotary Foundation's oldest and best-known program is Ambassadorial Scholarships. Since 1947 nearly 37,000 men and women from 100 nations have studied abroad under its auspices. Today it is the world's largest privately funded international scholarships program. More than 1,000 scholarships were awarded for study in 2003-04. Through grants totaling approximately US$428 million, recipients from some 70 countries studied in more than 70 nations.
The purpose of the Ambassadorial Scholarships program is to further international understanding and friendly relations among people of different countries. The program sponsors several types of scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students as well as for qualified professionals pursuing vocational studies. While abroad, scholars serve as ambassadors of goodwill to the people of the host country and give presentations about their homelands to Rotary clubs and other groups. Upon returning home, scholars share with Rotarians and others the experiences that led to greater understanding of their host countries.
Generous contributions from Rotarians worldwide represent continued faith that the students who are Ambassadorial Scholars today will be tomorrow's community and world leaders.
PROGRAM:
| Leslie Taulman, Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, spent a year in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, beginning January 2004. She is an Ag Economist who wanted to extend her education and experience in another country. In addition to taking classes in public health, finance and management, Leslie also collected data regarding health, social and economic conditions from 180 mothers of young children. The relationship of these numbers is meant to help focus programs to aid women and children. She is a Rotaract member at Purdue. We look forward to seeing more of her in the future. | 
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ED ELLIOTT, Naples FL; PDG JERRY ERSKINE, Lebanon, IN; BOB TUCKER, Lebanon, IN; SUZANNE SHACKLETON, Attica/Williamsport, IN.
GUESTS:
Denny Miller, guest of TOM SCHMIDT; Scott Banes, guest of ARVID OLSON; Karen Hirsh Cooper, guest of MIKE PIGGOTT; Adam Griffith, grandson of GRIFF; Sherm Kessler, guest of BETTY NELSON; Doug Davidoff, guest of MARK DAVIS.
THANKS TO THOSE WHO HELP WITH MEETING FUNCTION:
Money Collectors: JIM CARNEY 11:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m., and BARB HANSEN 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m,; Greeter: BETTY SUDDARTH; Invocation: JACK KELLEY; Dinner Music: RAY PEETERS; Singing: HARLEY FREY and JOHN BARRETT; JO WADE for help at the back table; BILL FULLER for help with Ripples, JAN GRIFFIN KOEHLER for photographs.
COMMITTEES FOR 2004-2005:
Click on the above link to see those who work to make our Club great.
PRESIDENT TOM'S
WISDOM: A high-school student came home one night rather depressed.
"What's the matter, son." asked his mother.
"Mom," said the boy, "it's my grades. They're all wet."
"What do you mean 'all wet?'" asked his mother.
"You know," he replied, "below C-level."
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