Spoke 10/22/2015

Posted by Don MacMeekin 
 
 
 
Called to order by: President Don
 
Opening Song: Rotary
 
Patriotic Song: America the Beautiful         
 
Invocation: Phil Rentz
 
Song Leader: Jamie Whyte was ready to lead but no song to sing.  We will save him for another day     
 
Visiting Rotarians:
None
 
Guests:
None
 
Raffle: Steve Usle go the number but not the Queen.  Another $10 spot for the pot.
 
Announcements:
  1.  World Polio Day at Salt Hill Pub in Hanover 4-6PM on Friday the 23rd. sponsored by the Hanover Rotary club.
  2. Wednesday October 28th Rotary International is hosting a Webinar or Estate Planning Tips and your Rotary Legacy.  Go to Rotary.Org to register for this seminar.
  3. Linda Copp asked for someone to join her at the Co-Op in Lebanon to man the table for Purple Pinky in honor of World Polio day on Saturday the 24th.
 
Brags and fines:
  1. Willie bragged for the crew that did a work project on Slayton Hill.  There were 11 persons in all who opened up the trail.  Thanks to Ernst encouragement and planning the trail is now passable and will be used for cross country skiing and snow shoeing this winter.
  2. We fined Paul Boucher for having his mug on the front page of the Valley News.
 
Rotary Minute: Suellen reminded us that November is Rotary Foundation Month.  The club would like to get 100% member contribution to the foundation.  Our goal is to get $100 for each member.  We will gladly accept larger and smaller contributions.  The members should hear more about this in the near future.
 
Speaker: Steve Christy
His most expensive breakfast was the title.  Steve shared how he flew to Main with some friends for breakfast.  After breakfast they flew to a small airport in Maine to look at a Cessna 195.  When they arrived they learned that the plane had been in a crash landing and spun around with the tail trying to beat the engine to safety.  The pilot’s side seemed to take the brunt of the crash.  The good news was that no one was seriously hurt during the landing.  Steve had been looking for a Cessna 195 and determined this was a good and solid airframe, so he bought it.  He then flew it to the Midwest where the plane was torn apart in the restoration effort.  They took it all the way down to the airframe and began the tedious process of reapplying the new exterior skin and repairing parts of the frame that were damaged.  The Cessna 195 was obsolete the day it was first produced but it sure is a sleek and beautiful plane.  The plane was obsolete because the year it was introduced by Cessna, Beachcraft (the across town rival) introduced its v tail plan.  The V tail sold about 1500 in the first year.  Cessna took about 10 years to sell 1500 195s. 
 
While they were rebuilding the airframe the Rotary motor was sent to Oklahoma for a total rebuild.  So Steves little plane has traveled much of the eastern and central United States in its quest for a new life and loving home.  The plane is now complete and resides in Lebanon at the regional airport.  Steve has made several trips to fly-ins in Wisconsin to share his restored beauty to the rest of the flying community.  A good story well told.