Roseland Rotary Meeting June 25, 2015

Posted by Ben Bendit,

on Jun 25, 2015

Roseland Rotary Meeting

June 25, 2015

A special thanks to the Waterford for a very nice lunch. I am not sure what kind of fried chicken we had but it was very good along with the smashed potatoes, mixed vegetable and salad. As always our server Robin did an outstanding job. It was also good to see Joy Wagerowski who with her yellow blouse brightened up a rather cloudy morning.

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see” Henry David Thoreau

We had 15 members, two speakers and Frank Tesler in attendance. Sorry but, where is everybody? Fifteen members in attendance is not all that good. Mark your calendar for Thursday afternoons and come to Rotary, we need you.

Brian Bernth ran his first meeting as President even though his term starts officially July 1. Have you ever wondered what a Past President does when his term is up? Check out the picture below? Ever wonder what a president does? Take a look at the pictures below.

“Presidents are selected, not elected” Franklin D. Roosevelt

Dave Keck gave our prayer and we belted out the pledge of allegiance. Our Song Master extraordinaire Bob Eberhart led us in a happy birthday song to Al Veldman and then in the Rotary song. We were magnificent today but we did miss Wally. Come on back Wally and team up with Bob. Maybe the two of you might just need a little coordination prior to out attempting to sing.

Chris Varda announced the meeting for July 16^th will be an afterhours meeting. This meeting will start at 5:30 pm here at the Waterford. More information will be forthcoming.

Ben Bendit handed out Roseland Rotary Cards to members in attendance. Cards are to be used to create interest in Rotary. Pass them out to anyone. Give one to someone you might invite to our afterhours meeting. Ben also asked if anyone has heard of Sudama and Krishna? No one in attendance had and that is unfortunate as it was the first article in this month’s Rotarian Magazine. Ben was pleased to see that most members said they did read the weekly Bulletin. “YA”

It was reported that Rotarian Dave Alford suffered a stroke recently and is now recovering at home. Please say a prayer for our fellow Rotarian and for his recovery. We miss you Dave!

May 28^th the South Bend Tribune ran a featured article titled ”Hand of Grace”. In the article Grace Hilreth, a 9 year old third grader at Madison Elementary School, demonstrated how she uses her new prosthetic arm. Grace was born with a defect that required her right arm to be removed just an inch or so below the elbow.

What makes this story unique is that her new arm was designed and built by engineering students at Penn High School. Two of those students Adam Dewey, 16, a junior at Penn High School and Nathan Petrie

16, a junior at Penn High School were our speakers. Both hope to attend Purdue University after graduating High School. With the aid of 3D printers they were able to build an arm for Grace. Actually they built several arms before they got the one that Grace uses. These young engineers are looking to build even better arms for Grace in the future but better equipment is needed. New 3D printers cost from $1,000 to $2,500 and that’s not the big ones. This editor can only say, “these kids are great”.

If it Doesn’t Make the world better, don’t do it

Frank Tessler wanted to know if they could get a 3D printer to make Scotch, whatever that is!

For all you that missed the meeting, sorry!

Don Kulwicki won the drawing even though Frank Tesler was in attendance. Way to go Don.

Now go and do a good thing. Maybe attend a Rotary meeting!