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    Volume 91, Number 5 - August 2, 2005

    PROGRAM for AUGUST 9:

    Club Assembly pertaining to Membership

    MEETING FUNCTIONS:

    Money Collectors:
    JIM CARNEY - 11:15 to 11:45 a.m.,
    GORDON KINGMA - 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

    Greeter:
    PAUL POST, chair

    Invocation:
    CORKY MITCHELL

    CLUB CONCERNS:

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

    ANNOUNCEMENTS:

    • FRITZ COHEN reminded those who signed up for SHOTS NOT SPOTS, August 10, 2005 from 11:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Tippecanoe Health Department (629 N 6th Street), to check the sign-up sheet posted on the bulletin board as a reminder of when they are to be present, or contact FRITZ.

    • BEN BIRTLES reported that Rotaract is planning a picnic in early October to involve Interact, Rotaract, Daybreak and our club. A hunger banquet is planned for November. If you know of a potential Rotaract member, please contact BEN.

    • KATHY KROLL, chair of Family of Rotary Committee, announced that FRED ANDERSON and his wife Jan will host a Mexican Fiesta at 7:00 on Friday, August 19th. Contact KATHY for reservations. The successful Euchre parties will continue. If you would like to play, let KATHY know.

    • Thanks to DAVE LANDGREBE the 2005-06 Club Directories are available. Please pick up yours when you attend the meeting.


    BIRTHDAY TABLE:

    ADRIENNE BOUGH introduced 25 members celebrating birthdays this month. Their combined years equal 339! They contributed $2,085 to the birthday table. DAN TEDER, KIRK CLARK, and FRITZ COHEN were presented mugs to celebrate their long years of service to Rotary and reminded of national events and the Club president during the year they joined.

    VOCATIONAL MOMENT:

    PHIL SWAIN, born in Philadelphia and educated at Lehigh University, was influenced by extraordinary opportunities. He came to Purdue for graduate studies and planned to be here only a couple of years. Eight careers and 42 years later, he is still serving Purdue and thankful to DAVE LANDGREGE for hiring him at LARS. His current research involves instructional design for distance learning.

    PROGRAM:
    JAN GRIFFIN KOEHLER introduced Buddy Howell, Professor of Communications at Purdue, who spoke about presidential rhetoric and the ways we remember the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He observed that of post-WWII presidents, only Ronald Reagan referred to these events and even this was oblique. He also explained how the bombings contributed to the start of the Cold War and the way Ronald Reagan used them to end the Cold War. AL CHISCON contributed to the program by presenting facts related to biological weapons that were available as well as the atomic bomb.
    VISITING ROTARIANS:

    MAUREEN SMITT, Ft. Myers South, FL; BEN BIRTLES, Rotoract

    GUESTS:

    Pauline Shen, guest of BARB REIF; Lloyd Weaver, guest of ELSA JANLE; Alberta Barker, guest of JAN KOEHLER.

    THANKS TO THOSE WHO HELP WITH MEETING FUNCTION:

    Money Collectors: JOHN CARPENTER 11:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m., and BILL FULLER 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m,; Greeter: PAUL POST; Invocation: BOB MEYER; Dinner Music: HARLEY FREY; Singing: REX KEPLER and ARVID OLSON: JO WADE for help at the back table; BILL FULLER for help with Ripples. JANE'S CORNER BLOCK



    • Our Club needs another photographer. JAN GRIFFIN KOEHLER has enough jobs, as President Elect. Anyone with a digital camera and a willingness to help out at meetings can do this job. Please contact me.
    • We could also use a laptop computer. If you are upgrading yours and wondering what to do with the old one, please consider gifting it to the Lafayette Rotary Club.


    COMMITTEES FOR 2004-2005:

    Click on the above link to see those who work to make our Club great.

    100% CLUB:

    BURCH (2); CARPENTER (2); CHISCON, A (2); CHISCON, M (2); CLARK (11); COHEN (114); COURTANEY; DECKER; FEUER (271); FILMER (114); FREY, HARLEY (215); FREY, TOM (2); FULLER (255); GANN; HARDING (25); HATFIELD (295); HEATH; HERNANDEZ; HOBBS (137); HOPKINS (6); HYCHKA (24); JANLE (96); JOHANNSEN; KECK (114); KELLEY, JACK (33); KELLEY, LETA (33); KEPLER (2); KLINGER (6); GRIFFIN KOEHLER (168); LANDGREBE (181); LIGHT (27); MCHENRY (2); MEYER; MILLER, W.R. (396); MITCHELL (186); NEUDECK; NORBERG; OLSON; PARKHURST; PRITSCHER (2); RAHDERT(2); REGER (7); SANDERSON (42); SMITH, KEITH (100); ST. JOHN (89); SWAIN; TYNER (2); VERPLANK (483); WADE (140); and WEST (145).

    CONGRATULATIONS to SUSAN HYCHKA who had 2 years, ELSA JANLE who had 8 years, JAN GRIFFIN KOEHLER who had 14 years and W.R. MILLER who had 33 years of 100% attendance as of the end of July, 2005.

    PRESIDENT SUSAN'S WISDOM:

    Today's Program was too serious to warrant a joke!

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