There was one Rotarians online for the meeting, that being Cody, and we had 18 other Rotarians in attendance on this date. Thanks for your special effort to meet with us no matter the location. Our own Lisa M. led us for the day, and Jamie L. gave our invocation. Steve L. was at the greeter desk signing us in. And Keith Olson was back with a couple of jokes for the crowd upon his return from a stint in Arizona.
We had one student guest from the FFHS with us and that was our very own Rotary Exchange student Laly. She reports that she will be traveling to Utah over spring break with her host family, and she also plans to go on the early summer Rotary West Coast trip. So a nice chance for Laly to see more of the USA before she returns to Belgium in early July. General announcements were limited to the idea that a Club Social might be in the works, but please check your email for any updates on this topic.
Brags and Fines were as follows:
Steve A. returned from a recent trip to New York and ended up staying an extra day because we are happy to report that Mung got her US citizenship while he was there, and it only took 19 years! Dave reported that Dollie had a recent surgery and is doing great to date. Tim H. reported that just as Desta was feeling much better now it was his time to get sick and even spoil their 63rd wedding anniversary - but he is on the mend and will be just fine. And after picking on Zach S. last week the guy shows up and paid a $5 dollar fine anyway - what a guy!
Brian introduced our program for today which was a team building activity involving a Subarctic Survival Situation. A plane goes down in a remote area of northern Quebec. Of course Keith Olson reported that if he was flying the plane there would have been no problems, so he did not know why he needed to do the activity!! Anyway, the survivors have 15 items that they can use for at least 17 days in order to keep themselves alive until help arrives or they can choose to try and walk out of the area as well. We then individually ranked the order of the items from most important to least important and then had to compare our lists and agree as a team the rank order of these supplies. Then both our individual lists and our team lists were compared to a list generated by a group of survival specialists to see how we stacked up against the experts. Because of the terrain the experts decided that walking out was a terrible idea so anybody that decided on that course of action probably did not do well with this test. Our group decided that Laly was young and athletic and speaks French so we decided to have her try and walk out of the area, so we probably doomed her to a certain demise! But we also had Mr. Steve Andrews in our group, and he got the top score in relation to the experts, so if you are planning to get stranded somewhere be sure and take Steve along, I’m sure he won’t mind!
Lots of talk across the table, plenty of opinions, and a whole lot of fun. I think the chances for our whole Rotary Club to survive might be less than 50 - 50, but we would for sure have a lot of fun trying. Thanks to Brian, Mary, and Lisa for bringing us this activity. Always fun to take some time to talk to fellow members no matter what the activity.
Next week we have President Carrie Brimhall and Jacki Maether with us from M-State so please make every effort to attend if at all possible.
Well enough for now - hope to see everyone at Rotary soon!
Yours in Rotary!
