Covid-19 - Day 47
It began on March 6, 2020 with two presumed positives in Delaware and Wayne counties. We are now at Day 47 as of April 22, 2020
Washing Your Hands
As you all know by now washing your hands is very important. A good lathering for the amount of time it takes to sing “Roll Rotary” will suffice.
Once Things Clear-up
Hangzhou, China has a provisional Rotary Club 6 hours due west of Wuhan, China for those Rotarians that wish to Make-up.
Ken “Whit” Whitney
Ken Whitney, a Rotary Club of Lancaster Rotarian, Past Club President, Past Assistant District governor and District Governor #7390 (1991-1992) emailed me to update his new email address.
According to our records, Ken is 98 years old and loves to get the Transmitter. Please send him a note at whitneyk406@gmail.com
District #7390 Outstanding Service Award
The D7390 Outstanding Service Award is given to someone who has made an important but often little recognized contribution to the work of our District and Ed Hauck from the Rotary Club of Lancaster is just such a person.
Ed is currently the chair of our Global Scholar and Peace Scholar awards committee. Each year Ed and his committee meet to select a person who will take graduate work at a University somewhere in the world in one of the Rotary six areas of service. In addition they would interview any candidates for our Rotary Peace Scholar award.
The work of this committee is important since Rotary and our District combined provide a stipend of $30,000 for each Global Scholar. Ed has been more than diligent in following through with our recipients, seeing that the reports are due and caring for innumerable details. For all of this work and his support of our District we are pleased to recognize Ed with this award.
True Stories
PP Wally Otto has submitted the following “True Stories”
“I have two true stories that are along the TED talk lines. That’s where Technology, Entertainment and Design Converge. However, in my Bob Groff TED talk, I am going to demonstrate how Bob was able to have technology, criminal justice and medical miracles converge.” Wally
TS #1
As mentioned, Bob and I used to play squash in the early morning at the Hamilton Club. We parked our cars on the north side of Orange Street just west of Cherry alley. Bob, at that time, was driving a two-parking space-long 750 BMW registered to his wife Ellen. Since it was early morning, there was little activity down on the street or in the clubhouse. We were both startled when there was a loud wrap on the squash court door and even more startled when we realized that the wrapper was a Lancaster City Uniformed Policeman.
He asked which one of us was Bob Groff, and as much as I admire Bob, I was quick to say not me and point to Bob.
Bob, after politely asking the officer if there was a problem, learned that a large BMW had slowly drifted across and down Orange Street and its drift had only been stopped when it ran into fire hydrant at the south east corner of Orange and Duke.
The policeman said he checked the registration, called Ellen and was told that her husband could be found on the Hamilton Club squash courts.
Bob therefor can be given credit for introducing the first self-driving car with ‘hydrant” (now known as hydraulic) braking. A real technical breakthrough for the early 80’s.
TS #2
This second true story deals with criminal justice and medical miracles. As avid squash players, the two-week closing of the Hamilton Club meant that Bob and I played at the YMCA. We took our equipment to the Y, rented little baskets and began our two weeks.
The first day went fine, the second day didn’t. It began by Bob not being able to locate the squash ball we had used on the previous day. Bob, like so many times, became preoccupied with this loss, even though I had several others we could use. Bob was sure that he carefully placed the ball in his basket locker and someone had stolen this ball, not his racket but the valuable ball.
We all know Bob becomes obsessed when he loses something and he does it so often that he can be described as a Compulsive Obsessive. Bob loses several items a day and has a very poor lost to found ratio. If you like to bet, today’s morning line has Bob going off at 4 to 1 odds.
I finally convinced him to forget about this great loss and play a squash set. Half way through the third game Bob began to complain about a chronic gout flare-up in his left big toe. This just wasn’t Bob’s day, so we hit the locker room. As we sat together on the bench Bob quickly took of his left tennis shoe to ease the gout pain. Out rolled the stolen squash ball and the gout pain immediately subsided. Therefore, Bob single handedly apprehended the thief and discovered a miracle cure for gout.
“True Stories”
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