Well, River Falls Rotarians, it has been a couple of weird, or at least non-standard, weeks. The evening social + planning assembly session replaced our 2/15 morning meeting, and Old Man Winter wiped out our planned visit and tour at the Wisconsin site of Carpenter Nature Center. The tour has been rescheduled to a spring noon meeting; and if we have to cancel that one due to a blizzard, I’m seriously thinking of moving south!
Now we are back – we hope – to more normal times, starting with:
BREAKFAST BY EZEKIEL IS BACK!
Ezekiel’s Youth Group Parents have told Jason that they are ready to resume breakfast preparation. It's set to start with this meeting.
Next meeting 3/1 at 7 a.m. – Crop Circles. Retired UWRF Professor Lou Greub will share results of his investigations into the mystifying and intriguing phenomenon of crop circles.
As a professional agronomist Lou became interested in crop circles when their mysterious appearances, usually in England, began being reported in the news media in the early 1970s. He continued to follow the phenomenon as best he could, even after he retired. In 2010 I had the opportunity to join a crop circle tour group that went to England to examine them first-hand.
The presentation will focus of the history of crop circles, and it will includes some of what Lou observed and learned on his tour, and some of the research and investigation that has been done regarding them.
About the speaker: Lou is a native of Wisconsin who grew up on a small dairy and general farm near Humbird. He is a BS graduate of UWRF, and he earned Masters and Ph.D. degrees at Iowa State University. He served as an agronomist on the Faculty of the UW-River Falls in the College of Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Sciences for 31 years, retiring in 1999.