Roseland Rotary Meeting August 8, 2013
Roseland Rotary Meeting August 8, 2013
Today’s best shirt award goes to Robert Stephens. Bob wears some the nicest colored shirts you have ever seen. It goes to show you what good taste Alleen has.
It was nice to see new member Joe Grabill in attendance. We miss Joe when he’s absent because you never know what we might have planned for him!
A possible new member Tony Molnar was in attendance today. Poor guy had to sit with Al and Dave, taking in firsthand the Al and Dave show.
We did a lot of singing today including Vive La Rotary, all 4 verses. Joe Maloney is thinking of whiting out verse 3 and 4 in the song book. Actually we did rather well with all 4 verses. We also got to sing Happy Birthday to Bob Sones who turned 45 last week. Note, always try and stay on the good side of the President.
President Sones noted the change in the table set up for our meeting. It looks like this will be better as it is a lot easier to see the speaker and should be better for visuals. Most of the comments from members were positive. This new set up will be tested in weeks to come. Bob also unveiled a new speaker system to go along with the new floor setup. This too worked out nicely.
Did you know the district and the Down Town Club are celebrating their 100th year?
Tom Hickey announced that we will be having the Apple Picking Fundraiser this year. The date is tentatively set for Sunday October 6, 2013 starting at noon. You should mark your calendar now. More information will be forthcoming.
Thanks to Joe Maloney, I think, for another outstanding dose of superb comedy. Joe’s joke was about a Minnesotan or maybe a Hollander, I am not sure, riding in an airplane. Seems he could stay up all night! To hear another masterful comedic bit, maybe, you will need to be present at our next meeting.
Al Veldmans phone went off during the prayer. This of course was very pleasing to Dave, the hit man, Keck who promptly fined Al a dollar. There was some feeble excuse such as, “I had to take the call because I had to go to a meeting.” There was something about his wife expecting and he had to have the phone on. His dog was sick and the cat was having a nervous breakdown. I thought I heard him say something about Hitler invading Holland. It is hard to understand him but when he is flustered it’s just hard to tell.
President Sones introduced our speaker Julie Stabrowski Program Manager for Junior Achievement. Locally Junior Achievement,(JR), serves 5 counties in Indiana and Michigan. In the last 10 years JA has slipped dramatically in this area. Presently JA is in only about 3% of the classrooms in our area. This downward trend can be contributed to a merger with the Indianapolis branch of JR. Recently our local JR has merged with the Fort Wayne JR who is represented in nearly 70% of the classrooms in their area. Our local JR has a goal of reaching 10% of the class rooms in this area by year end.
What JR needs is money and a whole lot of volunteers. They will provide the training and the supplies needed by volunteers to make JR a valued learning tool. They are trying to get various organizations to help with schools in their neighborhoods. JR teaches students Work Readiness, Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy. Think about it, do our schools really teach these things?
Note, we passed out 2013 Membership Directories. It was noted that it was not up-dated correctly. Upon checking we found that most of the information was the same as the 2012 directory. Members were asked on several occasions to please check and let us know if any corrections needed to be made. We only made the changes we knew about. If you have corrections please let me know and we will get your information changed, however it will not get in this year’s directory.
There were 15 members in attendance, 2 guests and our speaker. Hopefully we can do better next week as we have a wonderful show for you.
There was a drawing for a large candy bar sponsored by our speaker and Joe, the joke man, Maloney won it.
Pastor Don Mullens won the drawing.
Have a Great Week Everyone
