Roseland Rotarty Meeting May 28, 2015
Posted by Ben Bendit
on May 28, 2015
Roseland Rotary Meeting
May 28, 2015
Hello Roseland Rotarians. Yes, Your Little Old Editor is back and I can just feel the excitement. A big “Thank You” to Jennifer for the great job she did in producing a first class weekly Bulletin. Well Rotarians those days are over. You will now receive the weekly jibber jabber I usually produce. Upon my return my heart was broken to learn that our beloved Jennifer Price has found it necessary to resign from our club. We will miss her and all she has done for Roseland Rotary. I will miss her the most. We and I wish her only the very best, she will be missed. Please come back to us when you can.
Now on a lighter note, the Waterford served a very good lasagna for our lunch and was served by the very efficient Robin. Thank you Waterford and friendly staff for all you do for Rotary.
I am not sure if it is my coming back or just a bad attendance day but, attendance stunk! Sorry but there was no other way I wished to say that. We had 12 members and our speaker in attendance today. Please make an effort to attend meetings as we really don’t want to see changes made to the attendance rules.
Faithful attendance at Rotary meetings brings blessings you can receive in no other way.
Note, the Presidents Bash will be held June 20th at Brian Bernths house. For additional details see our .jpg)
Web-Site Roselandrotary.com. More to come on the Bash.
Web-Site Roselandrotary.com. More to come on the Bash.Bob Sones received his plaque for becoming a Paul Harris fellow. Congratulations Bob.
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
Bill Brennen gave the prayer and Wally Johnson played the violin as we sang God Bless America. New member David Koppana has a singer’s voice and could be heard leading the singing. We still miss you 
Bob!“He who sings scares away his woes.” Some of us scare way everything.
Dave Keck collected Happy Dollars and paid a dollar hoping for better attendance for future meetings. Brian Bernth paid because he is just happy, must have just got paid. Paul Sours is happy because she just won a mountain bike, we will see how happy she is after she rides that sucker. George Stump is just happy to be here, probably happy to be anywhere. Morris Rosen is happy! Bob Sones is happy because Dave Keck has just earned another Paul Harris. Al Veldman is happy because another grandkid just got married. He got to go to Tiger Stadium in Detroit Michigan for the Wedding Reception. He made it back and now we are all happy. Bill Brennen was happy to take a trip out East to witness his Granddaughters graduation from college. Wally Johnson told a long story about how he learned to play music on the Violin but really didn’t learn anything and then learned anyway. Now if you follow that you are better than me. Wally does play by ear and I can tell you that is a gift from God.
“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.”
David Keck introduced our speaker Mike Grabill Rotary Foundation Chairman. Now you might think .jpg)
poring but you would be totally wrong. Mike talked about the importance of being a Paul Harris Fellow and being a part of the Rotarian Every Year campaign. Did you know that only 11% of our Roseland Rotary members gave to Rotary Foundation this year? I know we can do better than this!
poring but you would be totally wrong. Mike talked about the importance of being a Paul Harris Fellow and being a part of the Rotarian Every Year campaign. Did you know that only 11% of our Roseland Rotary members gave to Rotary Foundation this year? I know we can do better than this!Mike went on to describe how the Foundation works and where the money goes and how much comes back to the clubs. For example we paid into the Foundation a little over $8,900 and we got back $8,400.
Want to know what the Foundation supports? Just read the Rotarian magazine and look at the projects done locally and worldwide. Not much would get done if we didn’t support the Foundation. It’s hard to think of a charity that does more than Rotary. When we consider supporting charities shouldn’t our charity of choice be Rotary? After all we are Rotarians.
Mike made a good point, if we just donated the cost of one glass of wine every week to the Foundation how much would that be a year. That would be over $100 a year and we would have our $100 a year from every Rotarian.
District 6540 Rotary Day at Four Winds Field August 23 at 2:05 PM. For only $29 Rotary Members will receive a ticket to the game, a South Bend Cubs Hat and a 2 hour All-You-Can-Eat Buffet. (Starting at 1:00 pm in the Home Run Porch). More on this later! Please mark your calendars.
Violinist Extraordinaire Wally Johnson won the drawing and a humongous amount of cash. Don’t forget to report that to the IRS.
Your Little Old Editor apologizes for not getting the last two Bulletins published. Jennifer sent them by e-mail, however I was leaving Florida and did not get to them. I expected to have them in my e-mail here in Indiana, however that was not the case. I had my computer tech try and retrieve them but like Hilary we have failed to do so! I did ask Jennifer to resend them and I will publish as soon as received.
Please Rotarians, help someone this week and help Rotary by attending next week’s meeting. Our speaker next week is Tim Cordell from Potato Creek. It promises to be very interesting.