Roseland Rotary Meeting October 2, 2014
Roseland Rotary Meeting October 2, 2014
In attendance for today’s Roseland Rotary meeting were 20 very attentive members, two guests and our speaker. This is just about one over our average attendance figure, not too bad. Those in attendance distinguished themselves with their high morels and superior intellect. Thank You, I appreciate that!
Dave Keck led us in prayer and Song Master Extraordinaire Bob Eberhart led us in a rendition of All Hail to Rotary to the tune of Anchors Aweigh. I must say, the new song books must be helping as our singing is actually getting tolerable. As a matter of fact, we were downright good. President Bob Sones
led us in the Pledge of Allegiance and the Four Way Test. President Bob did very well today and only forgot to introduce one guest, Timothy Lee, Assistant Regional Rotary Foundation Coordinator Zone 30, go figure.
Ben handed out Roseland Rotary Cards to those in attendance who had not previously received them and to those that requested more. These cards are for Roseland Rotarians to hand out to prospective members and for the general education of the public. Most people have no idea what Rotary is about and the card gives them the web-sites in order to learn more about Rotary. Please hand out as many as you can, we have plenty of cards.
Q: Why do birds fly south for the winter?
A: It’s too far to walk.
Ok, I get it, I am not that funny!
President Sones reminded everyone of the Foundation Dinner in Elkhart on the 24th. To date only three Roseland Rotarians are going to attend. Your Little Old Editor would go but he will be out of town. If you can make it on that date please let Bob Sones know so he can make arrangements. It would seem we could do better that just 3 members attending. Bob also announced that the District will be holding a membership meeting in Plymouth on the 18th of October. Four Roseland Rotary members will be attending.
Tom Hickey made a follow up announcement regarding the cancellation of the Apple Picking Event. So if you are going, be aware no one will be there!
Plans for a Christmas get together are still up in the air. President Sones talked to the Waterford and they agreed we could bring our own wine, etc. however, there would be a $15.00 per bottle cork charge. Unfortunately that would be a little more then what we would be willing to spend. Joe Maloney brought up the possibility of attending a party at St Mary’s. This would include Dinner and Entertainment for $43 per person. Unfortunately, we would need to make reservations within the next week or two at the latest. As for now all plans are up in the air and waiting for you to submit a proposal, HELP.
“The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass” Martin Mull.
Dave, the Al Agitator, Keck, went after fines and happy dollars with his usual gusto. His first target was Morey Rosen. Seems Keck has a Rabi as a scheduled speaker and because he obtained the commitment instead of Morey, he fined Morey $2.00. Brian Bernth was happy to be back, he lied. Brian and his wife Linda just got back from a vacation in the California wine country where they sampled much of the offerings and lived high on the hog, so to speak. John Pangani is happy because his soul is here. We are happy to see John and his soul. Bill Brennen is just happy, must have had a good night’s sleep. Wally Johnson said he would be happy if Keck would leave him alone, not going to happen. Happy Jay Harwood paid a dollar for not wearing his pin and paid for one of our visiting Rotarians that forgot his pin. Jay knew what he was doing as the guest won the raffle and paid Jay back. Makes you wonder how he knows this stuff. Al Veldman said he would be happy if Dave would just sit down and shut up., oh the love just keeps coming.
Note, per one of our distinguished members, there is indeed a Holland Army. Maybe that should be an Army of Holland or maybe the Army of the Neverland. I am sure there will be more to come on this subject.
Jennifer Price agreed to be an assistant editor for our weekly Bulletin. Now we have two class acts and yours truly writing this most informative piece of classical literature.
Dave Keck introduced our speaker Julie Stabrowski, Program Manager Serving St. Joseph & Marshall Counties for Junior Achievement of Michiana. Julie had been scheduled to speak once before however, on that occasion Dave had scheduled another speaker. Julie graciously said she would pass and come back another time. What a nice lady! Was Keck ever fined for that move? Julie did come back about a year ago and spoke to us about the comeback of Junior Achievement, (JA), in our area. Today Julie told us about the great strides made by JA. It was also good to hear that several of our members have donated their time to help support this unique program.
In the past year JA has gone from participating in 4% of the classrooms in the district to 11% and growing. In 2013 JA was in 240 classrooms and are going to be in over 300 this year. Compare that to Ft. Wayne who is in 42% of the class rooms and you can see where JA in our district has a ways to go.
Junior Achievement is looking for financial support and support in the class rooms. They could use more Rotarians to donate their time to teach in the class rooms of our local schools. Roseland Rotarians seemed very interested in the program as most remembered it from their school days. Of course, some of our members attended school before the days of JA or even electricity for that matter. Still members were very attentive and had many good questions. I for one could use a class on details of how JA works and operates. Very good job Julie.
It is so good to see some of our members that can’t make a lot of meetings. It just makes the meeting that much better. If you haven’t been to a meeting recently please do so as we do miss you.
Laughter is the best medicine, but if you laugh for no reason than you need medicine.
OK Rotarians, have a great week.
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