BULLETIN – July 1, 2026

By Tim Dempsey

 

Short timer Tom Gore rang the bell and called on Marco Amidei to give the Pledge. Greeter Andy Hermann led us in prayer and want to be Song Meister Doug Southgate led us in America the Beautiful. 

 

-Someone bragged about the LHS baseball team winning their second consecutive state championship.

 

-Birthday: Tom Zengler – July 26^th.

-Rotary Anniversaries: Tom Miller – 36 years, Tucker Olson – 31 years, Steve Risley and Rich Babjak – 30 years, Gina Shad – 2 years, Kyle McCartney, Hank Clemmensen, and Dave Westlake – 1 year.

 

-We collected $266 for the Food Pantry.

 

-There will be no morning meeting next week. Next meeting is July 15^th.

-The Installation Dinner will be at Tom Zengler’s house on July 22 at 5 pm. No morning meeting that day.

-There will be a normal meeting on July 29^th. No evening social event.

-Summer volunteer events: Mainstreet Lunch in the Park: July 10^th and 24^th.

-Bingo is every 2^nd and 4^th Wednesday in addition to Fun & Frolic duties.

 

 

-Tom Gore filled in for Steve Risley with a baseball quiz.

 

Today’s program featured Clint Saben from the Medline Corporation. He said Medline is the “largest corporation you have never heard of.” The company was founded by the Mills family and made aprons for workers in the stockyards in Chicago. A group of nuns who were running a hospital asked if they could make aprons for the surgical unit. Medline is the only company that now covers the entire continuum of health care. They provide products for hospitals, urgent care, surgical-centers, labs, hospice care, retail stores, the government and the VA. 

Products include gloves, wraps, blankets, wheelchairs to name a few. They have 335,000 products. They produce bathing systems, “shower in a box.” A major product line is procedure trays. The trays are customized to fit the doctor and the organization. They have a skin care line, and hand sanitizer was an important product during Covid. Their motto is: “We know the customer better’” They deliver the best total value. They operate in 100 countries and help hospitals run better. Their system can anticipate when a care provider will run out of a product and reminds them to reorder. They are in the same boat as the customer as reimbursement rates go down. They are the leader in infrastructure.

Medline has 6000 employees in Northern Illinois and is the second largest employer in Lake County. They are on the board of Lake County Partners, the economic development arm in Lake County.

 

-Daily: $37 won by Dave Potts.

-Progressive: $1,527 (11 cards). Doug Southgate drew the 9 of diamonds. ROLLOVER!

 

NEXT WEEK (IN 2 WEEKS):

-Greeter & Prayer: Doug Southgate.

-Fun & Frolics: Michael Schachner.

-Program: Jill Cantley – Rust oleum Corporation.

 

“Baseball is like driving. It’s the one who gets home safely that counts.”  - Tommy LaSorda

 

-Yours truly led us in the Four-Way Test.