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    Volume 91, Number 26 - December 27, 2005

    PROGRAM for JANUARY 3:


    JACK KELLEY, Haiti Project and JOHN MORRIS (Daybreak Rotary), El Salvador projects


    MEETING FUNCTIONS:

    Money Collectors:
    DAVE BOUGH - 11:15 to 11:45 a.m.
    ADRIENNE BOUGH - 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

    Greeter:
    ANN HUNT, Chair

    Invocation:
    JAY SMITH, Chair


    JANUARY PROGRAMS:

    • January 10 - Sidney Thomas, Regional Manager, Vectren Energy Delivery
    • January 17 - Craig W Davis is the Executive Director of The Chao Center for Industrial Pharmacy & Contract Manufacturing
    • January 24 - Dr. Martin Jischke, A Gathering Storm: U.S. Faces Challenge as World Leader in Science and Engineering
    • January 31 - Sallie Fahey, APC - Tippecanoe County Housing Situation

    CLUB CONCERNS:

    PRESIDENT SUSAN HYCHKA requested members/spouses to keep the following in their thoughts and prayers: ARVID OLSON, Ann, wife of DAVE LANDGREBE, HOWARD DEISSLIN and the family and friends of CARL REW. Carol passed away on Monday, December 26th. We were happy to see RAY KAVANAUGH at the meeting today.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS:

    • The Community Service Task Force reminds you to fill out the questionnaire and return it to SUSAN or STAN MITHOEFER. The book, What Kids Need to Succeed, is still available.

    • SUSAN reported the Salvation Army total (kettle and contributions) is $14,328.01 so far. It's not too late. We are taking contributions all month and into January.

    • Every Rotarian Every Year: $8,683.00 from 80 members, or 35%. We are up to $37.75 per capita toward our goal of $100.00 per capita.

    ROTARY FACT:

    Today's fact: 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.

    PROGRAM:
    Matt Williams, who grew up here and graduated from Purdue, became a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar to Hong Kong. He is now working with Habitat for Humanity in Southern China (Guangzhou in Gaungdong Province). He talked about how being an Ambassadorial Scholar served as a platform for his current activities. It took him a year to open the Habitat office and get projects started in the Pearl River Delta. There are 45 houses under construction at this point. He showed photos of the houses and families. There were several good questions and a sharing of experiences.
    VISITING ROTARIANS:

    SUZANN SHACKLETON, Attica//Williamsport; ROB HANRAHAN, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

    GUESTS:

    Pam Windler, guest of FAYE COLE; Brad McCarthy, son of JERRY MCCARTHY; Steve and Kristen Hychka, husband and daughter of SUSAN HYCHKA.

    THANKS TO THOSE WHO HELP WITH MEETING FUNCTION:

    Money Collectors: TOM WERNER; Greeter: VICKI BURCH; Invocation: DAVE LAHR; Dinner Music: REX KEPLER; Singing: REX KEPLER and JOHN BARRETT; JO WADE for help at the back table.

    COMMITTEES FOR 2005-2006:

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

    JANUARY BIRTHDAYS:

    BAUMGARDT, BILLY R. 1/17 BRIDGES, C. DAVID 1/16
    COHEN, LEONA B. 1/23 COREY, PAT 1/19
    DOSTER, BARBARA G. 1/7 GARTENHAUS, SOLOMON 1/3
    HAMMEL, Jr., H HANLY 1/11 HATFIELD, WILLIAM N. 1/2
    HOPKINS, OSCAR 1/25 KROLL, KATHLEEN 1/26
    MEYERS, JOHN H. 1/7 PARKHURST, NELSON M. 1/20
    REGER, GREGORY P. 1/3 SORENSEN, JOHN M. 1/3
    SULLIVAN, A. CHARLENE 1/21 TAYLOR, DOUG 1/16
    WALLING, JOHN R. 1/5 WILLIAMS, JACOB 1/5

    PRESIDENT SUSAN'S WISDOM:

    Fritz Cohen sent me an email about some inspiring words he'd heard recently. He said, "At (last) Monday's ROTC Commissioning ceremony, President Jischke representing the University, addressed the new officers briefly. Not only were his words wonderfully chosen for the occasion, he ended with a remarkable text with the title 'Paradoxical Commandments'." These commandments have been widely circulated and have been attributed to all kinds of famous people, including Mother Teresa. They were actually composed by Harvard student Kent M. Keith in 1968 as part of a booklet for student leaders.

    1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
    2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
    3. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
    4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
    5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
    6. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.
    7. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
    8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
    9. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway.
    10. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.

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