Roseland Rotary Meeting June 5, 2014
Roseland Rotary Meeting June 5, 2014
Lunch at the Waterford was excellent, we had meat loaf, smashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, salad, bread and butter. Sorry no cookies today. “Yes smashed not mashed”.
Dave Keck started the meeting with a happy prayer. It was very refreshing to hear a happy prayer and I am sure God appreciated it. Song Master Bob Eberhart had us sing the Rotary song in a low key. This was no problem for Wally, the deep voice, Johnson. Just maybe we should have sung a lot lower. We did very well on the Pledge of Allegiance and the Four Way Test, so big congratulations to us. I was so happy, hum, should have paid a happy dollar!
Dave Alford noted that should you have anything that needs to be added to the calendar please let him know. Dave is now known as Calendar Guy! Not sure what that means, I guess he takes care of calendars. Thanks Dave Alford for doing this for us.
President Sones and his lovely wife attended the South Bend Rotary Clubs 100 Year Celebration last week. According to Bob, they did it up right. Bob also notes that in a few years we will be celebrating our 50th year. I am sure Roseland Rotary will respond with an exciting event that all will want to attend.
Reminder, The Presidents Bash is coming up on the 26th so make sure to be there. You can sign up at the next meeting or call Bob Sones or Joe Maloney. There will be no meeting on the 26th.
PHOTOGRAPHS next week so please attend. If you can’t make it you had better have a good excuses or it’s the worst picture we can find of you that will be used in the Roseland Rotary Picture Directory. I sure wouldn’t miss this one!
Cards were passed out and if you were at that last meeting you got two cards this week. We forgot to pass them out last week so we doubled up this week.
Al Veldmen announced that Big C Lumber donated 50 sheets of drywall for the Catholic Workers House. They also gave screws, drywall tape and mud. Roseland Rotary gives a big Thank You to Big C Lumber for their support. Tomorrow, Friday, the materials will be delivered in the afternoon. We could use some help unloading please call Al for the time.
Dave, the microphone blaster, Keck was out and about collecting Happy Dollars on this fine day to be a Roseland Rotarian. Mark Derta paid because he and his lovely wife had a baby boy on the 29th. Derek Hayes paid because his boy is going to be 18 next week. No pin Dr Frank Toepp paid a dollar. Wally paid because he was just happy to be here and do a little singing, very little. Someone paid a happy dollar because Lyman Samuel, (no S), had on long pants and socks. Lyman was happy because he missed a cruise. Seems Lyman suffered a heart problem just before leaving and he sure didn’t want that problem aboard a ship. Glad to see you again Lyman so come on back when you get the chance. Paula Sours was happy to see someone salute the flag during the Pledge of Allegiance thanks to Scout Leader Pat Bridges .
President Bob Sones introduced Kate Lee from the Chamber of Commerce. Kate is working on an intern program for our community. This is in an effort to slow down the brain drain from our local areas. Internships for high school and college students are a good way to retain many of our best and brightest students. This program is not just for college students and high school students bound for college but also for those skilled students. Kate’s job is to pull it all together including schools, business, government and students.
A few facts about Internship, 65% of interns become employees, it cost around $8,000 to recruit a new employee and only about $5,000 to convert an intern. Employers and students can post on line at Indianaintern.net. This site gets about 5,000 posts per year. Young people invest in our communities and we need to invest in them.
A fine upstanding gentleman won the drawing which was drawn by a beautiful young lady, just saying.
21 members, 1 guest and 1 speaker were in attendance. The best part was we had 3 lovely young ladies in attendance. Thank you ladies.
Remember next week, Photos, be there. These will be published in our new Photo Directory.
Have a Great Week
