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    Volume 90, Number 49 - June 28, 2005

    PROGRAM for JULY 5:

    ADRIENNE BOUGH and FRED ANDERSON
    "Health Savings Accounts: How They Work and Can They Help You?"

    MEETING FUNCTIONS:

    Money Collectors:
    DON GUSTAFSON - 11:15 to 11:45 a.m.,
    BARB HANSEN - 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

    Greeter:
    VICKI BURCH, chair

    Invocation:
    DICK GRIPE

    JULY PROGRAMS:
    • July 12 Dr. Robert Hannemann,
      "The Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering - The Future of Healthcare Delivery"

    • July 19 Dr. Richard Cosier,
      "Business Schools and Ethics: They Just Seem to Go Together"

    • July 26 Dr. Sally Hastings,
      "China"

    CLUB CONCERNS:

    PRESIDENT TOM requested members/spouses to keep the following in their thoughts and prayers: JOHN MC KEE; MARGARET HALL; and RAY KAVANAUGH.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS:

    • JIM KLUSMAN reminded us of the free public forum focusing on Community Resources Addressing Child Abuse/Neglect, Wednesday, June 20th at 7:00 in the Tippecanoe County Office Building.
      If you miss it, Insight will rebroadcast it on Cable Channel 13 on July 2, 5, 6, 9, 12, and 13. Check your local listing for times.

    • BOB VERPLANK showed us photos taken of the Dedication of the Centennial Overlook on the Wabash River and the Rotary International Convention Parade in Chicago. Photos were supplied by BOB and music was provided by HARLEY FREY.

    • TOM FREY says that we have had two very generous donations toward the Haiti House, but that we still need some more money. We need to raise the money soon, so that the roof can be put on before the rainy season starts in August. Make checks payable to The Lafayette Rotary Club and contact TOM for more details.

    VOCATIONAL MOMENT:

    ZBIG GRABOWSKI told us of his birth in a small town near Warsaw, Poland. His family was given a ten minute notice of eviction by the Germans and moved to Warsaw. After the war he studied Nuclear Physics at the University of Krakow before moving to Upsalla, Sweden to study for his PhD in Nuclear Physics which he received in 1962. In 1963 he received an invitation to move to West Lafayette by Purdue University to work in the nuclear physics lab and teach physics.

    CONGRATULATIONS:

    TOM ROBINSON informed us that TIM LUZADER is the recipient of a prestigious Fulbright Grant. This coming October, Tim will spend three weeks in Germany as a participant in the German-American Fulbright Commission's annual seminar for U.S. University Administrators. The program will include high-level briefings, campus visits, selected government appointments, and cultural events.

    THANK YOU:

    Dear Rotarians:

    I want to thank you for all the cards and prayers, also the plant - it brightened by room and me.
    It has been a long recovery because the surgeon was able to do more than he hoped.
    Here at University Place the therapists are hoping for dismissal sometime in July.
    Sincerely,
    Margaret Hall

    ANNUAL DINNER REMARKS:

    Click here to read President TOM's Annual Dinner Remarks

    CONGRATULATIONS:

    BETTY SUDDARTH presented JIM KLUSMAN, GENE HILLS and ZBIG GRABOWSKI with Golden Service recognition certificates. They each have contributed at least $1,000 to the Lafayette Rotary Foundation.


    ROTARY FACT:

    About 42,000 Rotarians from 161 countries participated in the International Convention in Chicago. The three opening sessions of June 19 were given by 04-05 President Glenn Estess and throughout the convention the history of Rotary was clearly declared. The attendants met President-elect Carl-Wilhelm Stenhammar and his family as a group of Swedish Rotarians cheered them on, waving the blue and yellow colors of their nation (and Rotary).

    Rotary's centennial convention closed with a look to the next 100 years. The keynote address from Nobel Prize winner Dr. Wangari Maathai focused on our shared future and the environment, and others gave examples of how Rotary's youth programs are instilling in the next generation an ethic of Service Above Self.

    PROGRAM: TOM SCHMIDT reviewed his year, noting the service projects, Centennial Chili supper, the Annual Dinner, great programs and a little boy from Afghanistan named Qudrat. He also thanked officers, board members and committee chairs for their service to Rotary this past year.

    For a full text of his comments, click here.
    Incoming President, SUSAN HYCHKA presented a President's Pin and a gavel plaque to TOM.
    JIM TURLEY presented TOM with a Paul Harris Fellow pin donated anonymously in honor of HAROLD MICHAEL.
    SUSAN received the gavel from TOM SUSAN then passed along some impressive figures regarding the average club contribution to projects, both in terms of money and time. Her goals for the next include increasing our club's giving to the Annual Fund to $100 per member, as we voted to do a month ago. One of the speakers at the RI Convention said, "Rotary must grow younger." SUSAN and the next two incoming presidents have agreed on a three-year project to identify and invite 50 community leaders under 50 years old to join our club. She enjoyed talking with Rotarians from all over the world at the International Convention and reminded us that Service is the common language.

    VISITING ROTARIANS:

    ED ELLIOTT, Naples, FL; MAUREEN SMITT, Ft. Myers, South

    GUESTS:

    Steve Hychka, husband of SUSAN HYCHKA; Denise Schmidt, wife of TOM SCHMIDT; LLOYD WEAVER, guest of ELSA JANLE.

    THANKS TO THOSE WHO HELP WITH MEETING FUNCTION:

    Money Collectors: DAVID BRIDGES 11:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m., and VICKI BURCH 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m,; Invocation: VICKI BURCH; Dinner Music: REX KEPLER; Singing: REX KEPLER and BOB VERPLANK: JO WADE 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.

    ENTER MONTH BIRTHDAYS:

    ANDERSON,FRED L. 7/25 BROCK, ROBERTS F. 7/11
    BUCHANAN, BERTIE J. 7/28 COREY, JOHN 7/26
    DANIEL, SANDY 7/29 EBERHARD, GREG 7/16
    GALBRAITH, ROBERT E. 7/22 HANKS, JAMES L. 7/1
    HERNANDEZ, ANGEL C. 7/9 HINZE, WILLIAM J. 7/26
    HOBBS, JAMES A. 7/28 HOWELLS, CHARLOTTE L. 7/3
    HUGHES, TRACIE 7/15 HUSTON, JON A. 7/25
    HYCHKA, SUSAN R. 7/25 JOHANNSEN, CHRISTIAN J. 7/24
    KECK, CHRISTIANE E. 7/19 MCDIVITT, WESLEY 7/8
    MEYER, ROBERT 7/18 MILLER, WILLIAM R. 7/25
    PLUMLEE, JR., MILLARD P. 7/14 SCHWARZ, RICHARD R. 7/22
    SMITH, CHRISTENA C. 7/17 SMITH, SUSAN M. 7/4
    THOMPSON, KEN 7/1 TROTT, JOHN O. 7/8
    TURNER, JANE A. 7/20 WHITE, HARLAND W. 7/20


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