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    Volume 91, Number 33 - February 14, 2006

    PROGRAM for FEBRUARY 21:

    Joan Fulton, Marketing issues related to beans and peas in West Africa

    MEETING FUNCTIONS:

    Money Collectors:
    VICKI BURCH - 11:15 to 11:45 a.m.
    CHRISTA KECK - 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

    Greeter:
    MICHAEL HUNT, Chair

    Invocation:
    BARB REIF

    FEBRUARY PROGRAMS:

    • February 28 -Loretta Rush, Asset Building

    MARCH PROGRAMS:

    • March 7 - Joe Bota (introduced by Jim Hanks)

    • March 14 - TBA

    • March 21 - President Gora, Ball State University

    • March 28 - Vocational Scholarships & Service Above Self Award

    CLUB CONCERNS:

    PRESIDENT SUSAN HYCHKA requested members/spouses to keep the following in their thoughts and prayers: ARVID OLSON.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS:

    • Our Lafayette Rotary Club has been approached about taking on the sponsorship of our local Gus Macker Tournament. Enough interest was expressed to warrant further consideration of this project. We need additional committee members and another member who will co-chair this project with STAN MITHOEFER. Responsibilities involve organizing and promoting the tournament and soliciting contributions from local businesses to support this opportunity for teams of all ages to compete, have fun, and raise funds for Rotary's youth-oriented community service projects. Please contact STAN to volunteer your time and talents, smithoefer@msn.com.

    • Your Board of Directors approved offering a financial incentive to encourage your participation in our Rotary Joint District Conference, April 7-9, 2006 in Muncie, the home of Garfield. The conference offers opportunities for fellowship, entertainment (Ball State University Singers Friday evening and music for listening and dancing Saturday evening). Sessions on Friday afternoon and Saturday offer a chance to learn about a variety of Rotary issues including Membership, Vocational Service, Community Service, Fundraising Projects, Literacy, Public Image, Rotary Foundation, Youth Exchange, Water for People, Gift of Life, Gift of Sight, Rotary's Response to Katrina and much more. The club will provide $100 toward registration and lodging costs for up to 20 members of this club to participate in the events of the weekend. There is a savings for registering before March 1st. Registration forms are available now at http://www.rotary6560.org/register.htm.

    • Artists among us -- respond to the Artist Call for the First Annual Red Gold Rotarian Art Exhibition to be held in conjunction with the Rotary Joint District Conference. The juried event offers the opportunity to join Red Gold in honoring the tomato with unique Rotarian-made art. The exhibition is open to Rotarians and those related to Rotarians producing fine arts and crafts and living in the joint districts of 6560 (our district) and 6540. The work may be serious or humorous in nature and must in some way involve, delineate or exonerate the tomato. Slides of your entry must be sent for judging by March 1, 2006. Get entry forms from JANE TURNER.

    • Applications for the Vocational "Service Above Self" Award, which will be presented March 28th are available from GREG REGER or JANE. Please return applications to either of them by the February 21st deadline.

    • TERRY WEST announced that callouts for outbound Ambassadorial Scholars will be Thursday, February 9th and Thursday, February 16th. Please encourage all prospective candidates (sophomores and above) to attend one of these meeting.

    • GORDON COPPOC requested help with the professional visits for the GSE team from Mexico, which arrives March 20th.

    • Our club is in District 6560, which is in Zone 30 of the larger framework of Rotary International. Each year we are asked to vote for one of three candidates who will represent our zone on the nominating committee to nominate the RI president, this time for 2008/09. TOM MORAN moved, with a second by JOHN SANDERSON, that we recommend JOHN GERM. Motion carried.

    PROGRAM:
    Pam Biggs Reed, Executive Director or CFRC, led us through an interesting exercise involving jigsaw puzzles, representing the pieces of the puzzle in a child's life. She asked us what piece of the puzzle we hold in a child's life. There will be a workshop on March 29 regarding the 40 Assets needed to build hardy children. Register at the Volunteer Bureau.
    STUDENT GUESTS:

    VICKI BURCH introduced Jessica Pond and Scott Vitter from Harrison High School. Each received a certificate and a travel mug with the four-way test to commemorate meeting with us.

    GUESTS:

    Nielsen Pereira, guest of BILL FULLER; JiYoung Kim, Ambassadorial Scholar and guest of AL CHISCON; Ellen Phelps, guest of LETA KELLEY; Jane Smith, wife of KEITH SMITH; Elizabeth Roeckner, guest of MICHAEL HUNT; Melba Crawford, guest of CHRIS JOHANNSEN; Charles Bossert, guest of DONNA MELOY; LiTing Huang, Ambassadorial Scholar and guest of WALLY TYNER;

    THANKS TO THOSE WHO HELP WITH MEETING FUNCTION:

    Money Collectors: DON GUSTAFSON and CHRISTA KECK; Greeter: BILL HATFIELD; Invocation: ED HEMMER; Dinner Music: REX KEPLER; Singing: REX KEPLER and SUSAN SMITH; TOM MORAN for help taking attendance; and JO WADE for help at the back table.

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