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Volume 91, Number 34 - February 21, 2006
PROGRAM for FEBRUARY 28:
Loretta Rush, Asset Building
MEETING FUNCTIONS:
Money Collectors:
MARCH PROGRAMS:
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March 7 - Joe Bota
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March 14 - Sally Watlington, "Our Community Health Clinic -- Then and Now"
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March 21 - President Gora, Ball State University
- March 28 - Vocational Scholarships & Service Above Self Award
CLUB CONCERNS:
PRESIDENT SUSAN HYCHKA announced that it was wonderful to see ARVID OLSON at the meeting today.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
- 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.
- The deadline for applications for the Vocational "Service Above Self" Award, which will be presented March 28th, has been extended to February 28th.
- 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.
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From CAROLINE BRIGGS of Daybreak:
On March 24th, 22 people including 9 Rotaract students, 6 Daybreak Rotarians are going to El Salvador. Each person is asked to use one suitcase for donations.
We would like to take just about anything for children -- all the way from newborn to teenage. Shoes, toys, clothes, some books, crayons, pencils and coloring books are especially appreciated. One thing I should stress is that very small toys that we think are worthless are seen as treasures down there. Girls are always asking for dolls-and they don't care if they are used. In El Salvador, we go to a school run by Chester Stemp (Purdue '63) and sort through everything. We always have needs for teenagers. For girls, brushes, combs, hair bands, etc. For boys, balls, soccer shoes. I find that people don't need to spend a lot to give a lot. Things in our homes are very needed.
Because we have so many people going, we could take towels and sheets. I know this was a particular need. Of all the clothing items, I would ask for shoes because those seem the hardest to get.
Items can be either brought to my office (Briggs & Morris) 1216 Main Street or brought to your meeting and I will pick them up. - Several of you have asked where the funds are coming from to underwrite the incentive of $100 for 20 members to attend the District Conference. President Elect JAN GRIFFIN KOEHLER is unable to attend the Rotary International Convention in Denmark/Sweden this June. Some of the funds budgeted for the incoming president to go to RI Convention each year were diverted to help defray costs for a maximum of 20 members going to the District Conference to learn more about Rotary.
- Each of us has a Rotary Member Number. It is the series of about 8 digits above your name in the address box on your Rotarian Magazine.
EVERY ROTARIAN - EVERY YEAR:
SUSAN quoted Jerry Erskine's comments on the Every Rotarian Every Year Campaign.
"One president asked me a couple weeks ago, 'How do I get my members to participate in the Every Rotarian Every Year program?' My response was simple. First you tell them that it is OUR contributions that fund Rotary Foundation programs such as Matching Grants, Ambassadorial Scholarships and Group Study Exchange. You exhibit your Thermometer. Then you pull out your wallet and ask them to join you in making your club a 100% giving club by giving at whatever level they feel comfortable. To some it may be $10, to others it may be $100, and to still others it might be $1000 or more. Any amount is satisfactory as long as they all participate and all feel comfortable doing so."
Jerry Erskine, Annual Fund Chair, District 6560
NEW MEMBER:
| MARIELLEN NEUDECK introduced Keven Jennings, who lives at 4442 North Shining Armor Lane, West Lafayette, IN 47906, phone 464-2290 with his wife Maureen. Keven is the commercial loan officer at Lafayette Savings Bank, 101 Main Street, P. O. Box 1628, Lafayette, IN 47902. Phone 429-2827, E-mail kjennings@lsbank.com |  |
PROGRAM:
| WALLY TYNER introduced Joan Fulton, who came to Purdue in 1997. She spoke to us about Purdue and USAID projects in west African countries involving cowpeas (black eyed peas). These are nutritious legumes that grow in dry areas. The project revolves around the value added processing opportunities. Research focused on women entrepreneurs making Kosai (fritters that look like donut holes but are not sweet) and selling them on the street has produced data which will be used to help these women increase their productivity and profits. | 
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GUESTS:
LiTing Huang, Ambassadorial Scholar and guest of WALLY TYNER; Pat Harrington, guest of VICKI BURCH; and Pat Cunningham, guest of MIKE KING.
THANKS TO THOSE WHO HELP WITH MEETING FUNCTION:
Money Collectors: VICKI BURCH and CHRISTA KECK; Greeter: MICHAEL HUNT; Invocation: BARB REIF; Dinner Music: REX KEPLER; Singing: REX KEPLER and LETA KELLEY; TOM MORAN for help taking attendance; and DAVE LAHR 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.
PRESIDENT SUSAN'S
WISDOM: From P.J. O'Rourke, Third World Driving Hints and Tips
Learning to drive like a Native
It's important to understand that in the Third World most driving is done with the horn, or "Egyptian Brake Pedal," as it is known. There is a precise and complicated etiquette of horn use. Honk your horn only under the following circumstances:
1. When anything blocks the road
2. When anything doesn't.
3. When anything might.
4. At red lights
5. At green lights.
6. At all other times.
Animals in the Right of Way
As a rule of thumb, you should slow down for donkeys, speed up for goats, and stop for cows. Donkeys will get out of your way eventually, and so will pedestrians. But never actually stop for either of them or they'll take advantage, especially the pedestrians. If you stop in the middle of a crowd of Third World pedestrians, you'll be there buying Chiclets and bogus antiquities for days. Drive like heck through the goats. It's almost impossible to hit a goat. On the other hand, it's almost impossible not to hit a cow. Cows are immune to horn blowing, shouting, swats with sticks and taps on the hind-quarters with the bumper. The only thing you can do to make a cow move is swerve to avoid it, which will make the cow move in front of you with lightening speed.
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